Re: [boost] [Filesystem] Hidden overloaded virtual function

Subject: Re: [boost] [Filesystem] Hidden overloaded virtual function
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-19 21:17:43

Marshall Clow wrote:

> This is more complicated than it looks, because some standard libraries 
> declare do_length as:
>
>    ‘virtual int do_length(mbstate_t&, const char*, const char*, size_t) 
> const’
>
> and others as:
>
>    'virtual int do_length(const mbstate_t&, const char*, const char*, 
> size_t) const’

The easiest fix is probably to just define both.

> This was changed in the C++ standard back about the 2004 (changed TO const 
> mbstate_t)

C++11 has it non-const as far as I can see.