const char* constructor overloads for stdexcept and system_error.

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 26 June 2012 01:39, Ed Smith-Rowland wrote:
> On 06/24/2012 07:25 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>>
>> On 24 June 2012 04:57, Ed Smith-Rowland wrote:
>>>
>>> Here is a beginning patch to add const char* constructors for the
>>> standard
>>> exception classes.
>>>
>>> I didn't bump the so version because I'm not positive how to do it. I
>>> tried
>>> changing libtool_VERSION in acinclude.m4 and running the autotools
>>> commands.
>>>  The diffs were very messy because my machine has autotools 1.11.3 rather
>>> than 1.11.1.  Also, we might want to wait for something cooler to bump
>>> the
>>> soname.
>>
>> (CC'ing gcc-patches)
>>
>> Could those new constructors be inline, avoiding the need for a new
>> file and version bump?
>
> They certainly could be.  I was just following the style of the existing
> implementation.  The old string ctors were outline.
> I'll make the new ctors inline and save some grief.
>
> Built and regtested clean on x86_64-linux-gnu.
>
> For some reason i needed two symbols for

I assume there are some uses of logic_error that pass a const char*
and previously that had called the string ctor, but now calls the new
const char* ctor.  Any new symbols needs a soname bump though.