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

[gdr at integrable-solutions dot net]

------- Additional Comments From gdr at integrable-solutions dot net  2004-05-05 18:35 -------
Subject: Re:  Erroneous Comparisons of Negative Characters

"pcarlini at suse dot de" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| > Yep, you're right. I missed it. What a mess!
| 
| Indeed, in my opinion too *is* a mess!
| 
| Interestingly, the 1995 draft even *prescribed* using memcmp and wmemcmp: a nice
| task for the historian would be reconstructing *why* that section was removed.

That section was certainly removed for some reason -- it takes
committee vote to remove or add something to the working paper.

| Personally, barring evidence to the contrary, I'm still convinced that whoever
| wrote the compare entry in Table 37 *at least* didn't want to rule out using 
| memcmp and wmemcmp (on signed char platforms).

Wonderful.

-- Gaby


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