Bug 83087

Summary: C++ STL "string" does not compile in 2.96-112.7.2.i386 version
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Michael Furman <michael.furman>
Component: gccAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Michael Furman 2003-01-30 04:14:40 UTC
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Description of problem:
I insatalled gcc/g++ RPM 2.96-112.7.2.i386 and found that file
"g++-3/std/bastring.h" has error in the line # 343 in the 
statement "if(length() == 0) return "";" : if the string template
is instantiated with the differen then "char" base type (in my case
it was wide character) compilation fail ("" is a pointer to char and
it cannot be used/casted as/to pointer to the different type).



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Define a string of wide characters;
2.call method "c_str()"

    

Actual Results:  Compilation error

Expected Results:  no error

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Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2003-02-01 16:01:46 UTC
libstdc++ before the rewrite which showed up in GCC 3.0 doesn't support wide
chars (with the exception of the latest RHAS version).