[boost] Re: Better Intel-Win32 support

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-02 06:02:41

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:

> At 03:09 PM 6/1/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
>  >"Pavel Vozenilek" <pavel_vozenilek_at_[hidden]> writes:
>  >
>  >> "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>  >> news:4.3.2.7.2.20030601133703.01cc4b18_at_mailhost.esva.net...
>  >>>
>  >>> I'll try to trace where BOOST_NO_INTRINSIC_WCHAR_T is being
>      set. I'm not
>  >> so
>  >>> worried about ADL, at least with VC++ <7.1.
>  >>>
>  >> You may look on test table
>  >> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/boost/1614864.
>  >
>  >I'm not sure what I should expect to get out of that.  In order to
>  >make the toolset changes work, when I turn on wchar_t support I also
>  >define _NATIVE_WCHAR_T_DEFINED on the command-line, so it all works
>  >out.
>
> That will certainly work, but you shouldn't have to do that since the
> compiler itself defines _WCHAR_T_DEFINED. 

_WCHAR_T_DEFINED is no help at all in getting full wchar_t support if
the standard library (Dinkumware) doesn't detect it.  See the <limits>
header, for example.  It only checks for _NATIVE_WCHAR_T_DEFINED.

> Since I made the fix earlier this afternoon I am able to compile
> some non-boost code correctly which had previously be failing.

What fix is that, and did the code use iostreams or limits<wchar_t>?

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Dave Abrahams
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