Re: [boost] [filesystem] Problems with wpath on Linux

From: Alexei Alexandrov (alexei.alexandrov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-28 02:02:26

Alexei Alexandrov wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>> Alexei Alexandrov wrote:
>>>
>>> So is this information enough? This issue is a real showstopper for me 
>>> since it doesn't seem to be possible to use wpath on Linux correctly on 
>>> systems where locale is not UTF-8!
>> What version of Boost are you using?
>>
> 
> Ah, sorry again for not providing these details - I'm using 
> boost.filesystem from 1.34.1 release.
> 
> I also ran the failing use case under valgrind - it showed a number of
> "conditional jumps on uninitialized value" somewhere deep under 
> libstdc++ and also a couple of "4 bytes uninitialized read". I don't
> know if it's related to the problem though - I was just trying to do 
> what I can.
> 
> The problem is rather serious for me - I'm ready to do whatever it's 
> needed to help the boost.filesystem maintainer (is it you?) investigate 
> and fix the problem.
> 

Beman, is there any way to help with investigating/fixing this issue? I 
also wonder whether wpath is being tested on Linux as part of Boost test 
suite? I mean, I'm the only one who reported this problem or just nobody 
used wchar_t with standard codecvt on Linux so far?

-- 
Alexei Alexandrov