Re: ostringstream long long problem on Alpha/Tru64 with latest gcc3.2.1

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:01:15AM +0100, Karel Gardas wrote:
> > And there's the problem.  The C++ library depends on the underlying C library
> > to do the formatting of numbers.  Specifically, the "string to long long"
> > and "string to unsigned long long" functions.  If your system's C library
> > doesn't have those functions, then C++ can't do long long I/O.
> 
> Yes, I agree that that's the right behaviour, but IMHO it might be
> possible to use simple strtol and strtoul function on platforms where
> sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long). Am I wrong?

Even better, see the thread starting here

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2002-03/msg00263.html

and terminating with Benjamin's request to Nathan to provide a patch.


Phil

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