Sv: g++ and c++17 filesystem

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-11-19 03:03, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote:
>>> 18 nov. 2020 kl. 17:26 skrev René Berber via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>:
>>> On 11/18/2020 3:00 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/17/2020 9:15 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>>> The filesystem-library as a part of C++17 seems to have some
>>>>>> defects and flaws in the cygwin-package and pretty much every
>>>>>> lexical- and canonical operation works in mysterious ways (or not
>>>>>> at all)

>>>>> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-win32

>> As stated earlier, it seems like using mingw g++/libstdc++ (from the
>> cygwin-package-manager) it seems like it works better, but then you can’t
>> mix with other posix/cygwin mechanism (that uses cygstdc++) without
>> breaking ODR (and probably some memory models etc as well) so maybe
>> someone do have some insightful info about this ? How “special” is
>> cygstdc++ (compared to mingw:s libstdc++) ? Could this be fixable in that
>> library (cygstdc++) ?

> I might be totally wrong, so does anyone have any take on this ?

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