Status of P0645 (std::format) in libstdc++

Ed Smith-Rowland 3dw4rd@verizon.net
Sun May 16 02:28:54 GMT 2021


On 5/15/21 9:27 AM, Jonathan Wakely via Libstdc++ wrote:
> On Sat, 15 May 2021, 12:10 Spencer Collyer, <spencer@spencercollyer.plus.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Firstly, I hope it is OK to ask questions like the following on this list.
>>
> Yes, totally fine!
>
>
>
>> I'm wondering what the status of P0645 in libstdc++ is at the moment? This
>> is the proposal that introduces the std::format text formatting library in
>> C++20.
>>
>> I've checked the page
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/status.html#status.iso.2020.
>> The line for that proposal just mentions the SD 6 feature test macro check
>> to see if it is supported. Is it being worked on at present?
>>
>
> No, not that I'm aware of.
>
> For now, the best option is to use the fmt library from GitHub.

I was looking into this (not that I have time) and decided that grabbing 
fmt is the best way forward for libstdc++ if the licensing could work.

Ed




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