Re: Docs for strings of arbitrary character types

[Jonathan Wakely <cow at compsoc dot man dot ac dot uk>]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:21:47PM +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:

> Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> 
> >I'm updating the HTML docs and will document the process of specializing
> >_Char_traits (and possibly __gnu_cxx::char_traits) to get it right.
> >  
> >
> Forgot a weird issue, that maybe is worth documenting (a note?): an user
> of the library, privately told me that at least some versions of glibc
> don't play well with -fshort-wchar: this means that unfortunately the
> char_traits.h implementation of the wchar_t specialization is not
> guaranteed to work when that compiler option is in effect.
> 
> Paolo.
> 
> P.S. For your curiosity: rewriting the wchar_t specializations by open
> coding the various functions, allowed that user to get a clean testsuite
> and quickly port a windoze application.

Interesting ... I'l try to include a note to that effect.

Thanks,

jon

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