[boost] Re: lexical_cast proposition test failure w/ MSVC 6.0

From: Early Ehlinger (earlye_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-03 16:19:58

"Vorpal Swordsman" <vorpalswordsman_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:001801c2b358$19ba5110$e901a8c0_at_KHBMACDONALD...
> When running the supplied test suite, the following line is reported as
> failing:
>   test<wchar_t,int>::do_test(L' ',123,__LINE__,true);

If I had to guess I'd say that this is because MSVC 6.0 does not have a
native wchar_t type, so L' ' is not a wchar_t literal but is instead an
unsigned short literal.

> The above problem? does not seem to affect lexical_casts to
> std::basic_string<wchar_t>

I believe its std::basic_string< wchar_t > is specialized to work around
this deficiency in the language support.

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