Re: [RFC] 9533: sixth iteration

[Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at unitus dot it>]

Pétur Runólfsson wrote:

> Paolo Carlini wrote:
>  
>
> > What do you mean exactly by "garbage" (*)? Could you provide 
> > some more 
> > info or,
> >    
> encoding() always returns 4, max_length() always returns 1.
> This is wrong for all encodings (I think it is provable that
> max_length() >= encoding()).
Ok, thanks.

> > even better, a patch, enabling us to use safely the 
> > much more 
> > correct code on top?
> >    
> Sure, just copy codecvt.cc and codecvt_members.cc from 3.4 :-)
> Some changes need to be made to keep things ABI-compatible,
> but in general this should be easy to backport.
Good.
Therefore, jokes apart, for 3.4 the patch we have refined in the last 
days (using encoding and max_length) is ok, you mean.

Paolo.