On Mon, 30 Oct 2023, 19:30 Tom Honermann, <tom_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Following last week's SG16 meeting that discussed, among other things,
> plans to remove the codecvt<char16, char, mbstate_t> and other
> specializations, I did some testing and was surprised to discover that the
> libstdc++ implementation of that specialization did not behave as I
> expected using gcc 11.4. I investigated and found I was hitting the issue
> at https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86419 (originally
> reported in 2018) that was fixed in January for gcc 13
> <https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=02dab998665dda0f6df31740e8897c42de3d740f>
> .
>
> This might be an indication that these specializations do see some use in
> the wild.
>
> Dimitrij and Jonathan, are there any details you can share regarding what
> lead to the discovery and resolution of this bug? The bug report indicates
> the issue was exposed by new tests written by Dimitrij. I'm curious if that
> testing was motivated by use in the community or just part of a test
> improvement effort. Jonathan, anything you can share about what motivated
> fixing the bug this year?
>

It's a bug, bugs should be fixed :-)

Dimitrij contributed a patch, so I saw no reason not to fix it.


Tom.
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