Re: string_char_traits or char_traits

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:48:42PM +0100, Valignat Cedric wrote:
> 
> I'm far away to be a C++ guru, so did i misunderstood something ?
> is it for internal use only ?
> or is it a compatibility problem ?

Given those three choices, let's call it a compatibility problem.

Your understanding is correct, and char_traits is certainly for public use;
it exists to be specialized, after all.  But the library you are using is
quite old and outdated, and very very non-conforming to the ISO standard.
The most recent release of the compiler shipped with that library, so even
if you are using GCC 2.95.2, the C++ support library will cause problems.

If you must use 2.95.2, you have a few choices, including using STLport to
override the headers which come with the old libstdc++-v2, or downloading
one of the pre-2.91 snapshots of libstdc++-v3.  If you are not restrained
to using GCC 2.95.2, then one of the recent compiler snapshots will include
the new ISO-compliant library.


Luck++;
Phil

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