wstring & wfstream

[Phil Edwards]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:31:27AM -0600, Eric Ray wrote:
> One more thing.  Can anyone shed some light on why the typdef for
> wstring is commented out.  This is the entire contents of the string
> file.
> 
> --------------------------
> // Main header for the -*- C++ -*- string classes.
> 
> #ifndef __STRING__
> #define __STRING__
> 
> #include <std/bastring.h>

Anything involving "bastring.h" is using GCC 2.x, which doesn't support
wide I/O very well if it all.  You should use GCC 3.x, which uses a
completely rewritten C++ library and supports wide I/O on those systems
where it's available.

Phil

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