Re: [boost] lexical_cast in cvs failure on gcc-2.96(redhat-7.1)

From: Thomas Matelich (toms-mailing-lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-25 22:39:05

Darin Adler wrote:

> on 9/25/01 5:27 PM, Lie-Quan Lee at llee1_at_[hidden] wrote:
>
> > [lexical_cast<bool>] failed: 2001
>
> Yes, there is a bug with lexical_cast to bool in gcc. It's a known problem
> (at least I know about it).
>
>     -- Darin
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This is not strictly a lexical_cast bug, the problem is that gcc's stringstream does
not support boolalpha.

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