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Re: [filesystem] Problems with wpath on Linux

by Alexei Alexandrov-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Alexei Alexandrov wrote:

> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>> Alexei Alexandrov wrote:
>>>
>>> So is this information enough? This issue is a real showstopper for me
>>> since it doesn't seem to be possible to use wpath on Linux correctly on
>>> systems where locale is not UTF-8!
>> What version of Boost are you using?
>>
>
> Ah, sorry again for not providing these details - I'm using
> boost.filesystem from 1.34.1 release.
>
> I also ran the failing use case under valgrind - it showed a number of
> "conditional jumps on uninitialized value" somewhere deep under
> libstdc++ and also a couple of "4 bytes uninitialized read". I don't
> know if it's related to the problem though - I was just trying to do
> what I can.
>
> The problem is rather serious for me - I'm ready to do whatever it's
> needed to help the boost.filesystem maintainer (is it you?) investigate
> and fix the problem.
>

Beman, is there any way to help with investigating/fixing this issue? I
also wonder whether wpath is being tested on Linux as part of Boost test
suite? I mean, I'm the only one who reported this problem or just nobody
used wchar_t with standard codecvt on Linux so far?

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Alexei Alexandrov

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