[patch] std::string::operator[] extension in debug mode

[chris jefferson]

Jonathan Wakely wrote:

>On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 07:13:27PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
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>>Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor@gmail.com> writes:
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>>| does the right thing. We might also want to mark operator[] with the
>>| "always_inline" attribute,
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>>Ahem, no.
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>>| so that we never get two conflicting definitions of the same code.
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>>If the names are properly reroutedm we should not get that confilt.
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>For std::string we don't provide a separate __gnu_norm::basic_string and
>a __gnu_debug::basic_string, we just add some assertions to
>std::basic_string if debug mode is enabled.
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>This means the names are identical, but the instantiation in the lib
>does not have the assertions, while the implicit instantiation in the
>user's objects has the assertions - i.e. genuine ODR.
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Sorry for a possibly stupid question. but this seems to me to be the 
main problem. Will the problems go away if we just have two definitions 
of basic_string, like we have two definitions of other containers for 
when we want debug mode?

Chris