Marshall Clow wrote:

So, I moved it so that it is only set when building on GCC 2.95.x.

Index: boost/boost/config/platform/macos.hpp =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/boost/boost/boost/config/platform/macos.hpp,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -r1.13 macos.hpp 19d18 < # define BOOST_NO_CWCHAR 41a41,42

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# define BOOST_NO_CWCHAR

This did not break any other tests, and made some (many) of the serialization tests pass. There are still many failures, which I am still investigating.

Could someone vet this change, and commit it to CVS? Thanks!

When I look at this I conclude that define BOOST_NO_CWCHAR ( and BOOST_NO_CWTYPE) should just be removed from this file. Its not clear to me why its there. The MacOS compiled with GCC includes the file library configuration file that sets/doesn't set these macros according to the platform. And the gcc version isn't enough to do it right. E.G. Cygwin gcc doesn't support wchar_t etc even though its version 3.3. I would like to a) hear from someone who knows why that code was put in there in the first place. b) take it out and run the tests. If b) looks ok and we don't hear from anyone shortly, then I'll make the change in CVS. Robert Ramey