[Boost-users] Re: Feature request for boost::filesystem

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-01 11:45:49

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>> 1. Make the library interface templated.
>>> 2. Use narrow classes: e.g. string
>>> 3. Use wide classes: e.g. wstring
>>> 4. Have some class which works with ascii and unicode.
>>>
>>> The first approach is bad for code size reasons.
>> 
>> It doesn't have to be.  There can be a library object with explicit
>> instantiations of the wide and narrow classes.
>
> Which doubles the size of shared library itself.

It depends; the narrow specialization might be implemented in terms
of the wide one ;-)

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