libstdc++/93: template class basic_string cannot be instantiated with types other than <char>

[Benjamin Kosnik]

The following reply was made to PR libstdc++/93; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com>
To: joel@quoininc.com
Cc: libstdc++-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libstdc++/93: template class basic_string cannot be instantiated with types other than <char>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:06:53 -0700 (PDT)

 > >Number:         93
 > >Category:       libstdc++
 > >Synopsis:       template class basic_string cannot be instantiated with types other than <char>
 
 > const charT* c_str () const
 >   { if (length () == 0) return ""; terminate (); return data (); }
 
 
 A couple of things:
 
 1) libstdc++-v3 has a working wstring class
 2) libstdc++-v3 has a conformant string class, so that things like
 
 # include <string>
 typedef std::basic_string<short> sstring;
 template class std::basic_string<short>;
 
 work.
 
 I suggest you use this library if you're interested in this kind of 
 functionality.
 
 -benjamin