problems with std::wstring on Solaris

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 12:36:19PM -0500, Anthony Feick wrote:
> 
> I assume you're talking about PR 6702 :
> http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&pr=6702

Probably 4764 instead.

> When I did that and tried to recompile libstdc++, I had problems with 
> iswblank, vfwscanf, vswscanf, vwscanf, and wcstof.  (Probably the reason 
> GLIBCPP_USE_WCHAR_T was off.)  After I commented those out in 
> gcc-3.2/libstdc++-v3/include/c_std/std_cwchar.h and 
> gcc-3.2/libstdc++-v3/include/c_std/std_cwctype.h libstdc++ compiled and 
> installed fine.

Sounds like 4764, all right.

I will try and get gcc building on my Solaris boxes, next time one of them
has some spare cycles, and tweak the tests in acinclude.m4.  No promises on
when this might happen.


> Unfortunately, now basic_string::push_back gives a Segfault wmemset () from 
> /usr/lib/libc.so.1.  I assume this means I am now doing something 
> incompatible with the system libraries.

Possibly due to the -fshort-wchar thingy, which you guys ahve already
discussed.


Phil

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