> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Sebor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PING] FW: [PATCH] Windows infrastructure for > generating VisualStudio projects and solution(s) > [...] > I think the native C++ Standard Library that > comes with MSVC makes this possible (although I'm not sure if > it does it in the same binary or if they actually ship two > binaries compiled from the same sources, one with the option > and one without). Sure. The MSVC C++ Standard Libraries (libcpxx.lib, msvcprtx.lib) includes unsigned short and wchar_t overloads simultaneously. Although for COM supporting the Microsoft provided the distinct libraries: comsuppx.lib with unsigned short overloads and comsuppwx.lib with wchar_t overloads.
I tried to define wchar_t as typedef to __wchar_t instead of unsigned short since __wchar_t is defined always, but in this case appears another problem: without /Zc:wchar_t option the type of L"abc" is unsigned short[4] and is not compatible with __wchar_t[4] :( As for me, __wchar_t is useless type. > FWIW, it was a really, REALLY bad decision on Microsoft's > part not to enable wchar_t as a native type by default. I think they preffered compatibility with the old sources, implemented with MSVC6, to the standard conformance :) Farid.
