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Stefan Teleman edited comment on STDCXX-1055 at 2/6/12 9:47 PM: ---------------------------------------------------------------- About the protected virtual destructors: The Standard specification is very explicit about declaring all these destructors protected virtual. I checked C++1998, C++2003 and C++2011, and in all three Standard specifications, these destructors are protected. Allowing them to be public by default (and not as a stdcxx extension) leads to writing very unportable code - which I guess goes against the purpose of having a Standard in the first place. Not to mention that it is a violation of the Standard spec. I am not sure I understand the advantage of having these destructors public. was (Author: steleman): About the protected virtual destructors: The Standard specification is very explicit about declaring all these destructors protected virtual. I checked C++1998, C++2003 and C+2011, and in all three Standard specifications, these destructors are protected. Allowing them to be public by default (and not as a stdcxx extension) leads to writing very unportable code - which I guess goes against the purpose of having a Standard in the first place. Not to mention that it is a violation of the Standard spec. I am not sure I understand the advantage of having these destructors public. > some of the localization class declarations do not follow the > ISO/IEC:14882:2003 specification > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: STDCXX-1055 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STDCXX-1055 > Project: C++ Standard Library > Issue Type: Bug > Components: 22. Localization > Affects Versions: 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.x, 4.3.x, 5.0.0 > Environment: Solaris 10 and 11, Linux (RedHat and OpenSUSE), Sun C++ > Compiler 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, GCC4. > The defect is independent of platform or compiler. > Reporter: Stefan Teleman > Labels: conformance, standards > Fix For: 4.2.x, 4.3.x, 5.0.0 > > Attachments: stdcxx-1055.patch > > > For the following classes: > std::codecvt<> and its specializations > std::collate<> and its specializations > std::ctype<> and its specializations > std::ctype_byname<> and its specializations > std::messages<> and its specializations > std::messages_byname<> and its specializations > std::money_get<> and its specializations > std::moneypunct<> and is specializations > std::moneypunct_byname<> and its specializations > std::money_put<> and its specializations > std::num_get<> and its specializations > std::numpunct<> and its specializations > std::numpunct_byname<> and its specializations > std::num_put<> and its specializations > std::time_get<> and its specializations > std::time_get_byname<> and its specializations > std::time_put<> and its specializations > 1. all these type declarations must be of class type (and not of struct type) > 2. all these classes must have protected virtual destructors > 3. all the corresponding *_base (time_base, money_base, etc), must have > virtual destructors > The current implementation of these types as structs (with default public > access > specifier on their non-virtual destructors) causes failures in Perennial > CPPVS V8.1. > Changing the access specifier for these destructors requires some changes in > the > stdcxx tests for localization. > Patch based on 4.2.1 to follow shortly. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira