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Re: char_traits patch, round two

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
To: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, pthomas at suse dot de,libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org, ro at suse dot de
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:51:51 +0200
Subject: Re: char_traits patch, round two
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Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> writes:

>> The standard does not have direct support for strings expressed as
>> arrays of "unsigned char".  
>
> Yep. The standard only specifies char and wchar_t specializations for
> std::char_traits.
>
> The correct way to deal with this now is to explicitly specialize
> std::char_traits for user-defined types. That's always been the correct
> way to deal with this, but the generic-mostly-correct definitions that
> were previously in place allowed people to be lazy.

Thanks for the clarification,
Andreas
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 Andreas Jaeger
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References:
- Re: char_traits patch, round two
  - From: Andreas Jaeger
- Re: char_traits patch, round two
  - From: Gabriel Dos Reis
- Re: char_traits patch, round two
  - From: Philipp Thomas
- Re: char_traits patch, round two
  - From: Gabriel Dos Reis
- Re: char_traits patch, round two
  - From: Benjamin Kosnik

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