[gnu.gcc.help] wstring commented out?

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Sun Jun 18 09:54:00 GMT 2000


> Does anyone know why is the typedef for wstring is remarked?

Please have a look at the ChangeLog. This was done in

1999-01-28  Baron Roberts  <baron@sgi.com>

	* string: Uncomment wstring declaration.

I believe the rationale was that the wchar classification functions
(<cwctype>) are not universally available on all systems.

Regards,
Martin



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