templates, wchar_t and libstdc++

[Matthew J Fletcher]

Hi,

> > is there a flag (or configure option) to disable the use of the 
pre-compiled
> > libstdc++ bits of the stl, and use templates in the old fashioned (just
> > include files) way ?
> 
> You can do a couple things.
> 
> 1)
> --disable-c-mbchar will disable wchar_t support for your version of the 
compiler and library.
> 
> 2)
> --enable-cxx-flags=-fshort-wchar will build a version of libstdc++ with the 
options you desire
> 
> 3) change your compiler config so that -fshort-char is the default for your 
toolchain. Search google, or ask on gcc-help.
> 

i did consider these, but we also need to use 4byte wchar_t when we link 
against other linux libraries for the linux build.

> 4) compile with -U_GLIBCXX_EXTERN_TEMPLATE
>  to bypass extern template linkage optimizations.

thats just what i need.

i noticed that searching for 'U_GLIBCXX_EXTERN_TEMPLATE', on google only 
returns one hit,.. that must be a record !

regards

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