[Bug libstdc++/15276] Erroneous Comparisons of Negative Characters

[pcarlini at suse dot de]

------- Additional Comments From pcarlini at suse dot de  2004-05-05 12:05 -------
> Secondly, assuming a std::string was supposed to be a typedef-name for
> a C-string, we would not have had a c_str() in the first place.

Honestly, I don't understand why you are insisting on this 'typedef-name'
thing, that nobody has mentioned before. Are you referring to a previous 
discussion?

> Sure, it is hard to second guess what the committee intended -- a
> truism -- specifically when one does not want to believe what it wrote.

However, apparently, all the major implementations in the world are so
"perverse" to second guess like this... Do you really consider wise for v3
to diverge on this issue?

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15276