"Vorpal Swordsman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 001801c2b358$19ba5110$e901a8c0@KHBMACDONALD">news:001801c2b358$19ba5110$e901a8c0@KHBMACDONALD... > When running the supplied test suite, the following line is reported as > failing: > test<wchar_t,int>::do_test(L' ',123,__LINE__,true);
If I had to guess I'd say that this is because MSVC 6.0 does not have a native wchar_t type, so L' ' is not a wchar_t literal but is instead an unsigned short literal. > The above problem? does not seem to affect lexical_casts to > std::basic_string<wchar_t> I believe its std::basic_string< wchar_t > is specialized to work around this deficiency in the language support. -- -- Early Ehlinger CEO, ResPower Inc - Toll-Free : 866-737-7697 -- - RenderFarm - Lightwave , 3dSMax , Bryce , Maya , AfterEffects - --- www.respower.com -- 200+ GHz Starting At USD$0.50/GHz*Hour -- ----------------- SuperComputing For the Masses! ---------------- "I'm so busy programming my computer to let me be lazy, I never get any rest!" - John Kaster _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost