Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Libstdc++ extension to accept wchar_t* arguments

[Ruben V. B. <van...@gm...>]

> > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 12:25:28 +0000
> > From: gchicares@...
> > To: mingw-users@...
> > Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Libstdc++ extension to accept wchar_t* arguments
> >
> > On 2011-07-03 11:43Z, Ruben Van Boxem wrote:
> > >
> > [...] std::fstream's that can be opened with wchar_t* arguments [...]
> > >
> > > [...] TR2 std::filesystem is an extension to C++0x
> > > (which also isn't even finished *officially* yet), and thus will take
> > > some time to make it's way into a library implementation.
> >
> > Doesn't boost
> > http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/libs/filesystem/
> > already provide a filesystem implementation that works with gcc?
>
> The manner in which the std::filesystem proposal solves the problem
> is that the proposal includes a filesystem::path overload
> for fstream::open().
>
> boost::filesystem, obviously, cannot do this.

And that is exactly why libstdc++ needs these trivial overloads IMHO.
Please keep the discussion on both lists, as both projects are
involved. Thanks,

Ruben