Re: [PATCH v2] libstdc++: Add hexfloat/defaultfloat io manipulators.

2014-04-16 Thread Luke Allardyce
> Thanks, I was wrong about that. > > Then I think we should just bite the bullet and provide the new > behaviour. If we do have an abi_tag on those types in the next release > then we can preserve the old behaviour in the old ABI and use the > C++11 semantics for the abi_tagged type, which will be

Re: [PATCH v2] libstdc++: Add hexfloat/defaultfloat io manipulators.

2014-04-15 Thread Luke Allardyce
>> Also the old standard seems to require that ios_base::fixed | >> ios_base::scientific (or any other combination) falls through to the >> uppercase test; I was trying to use abi_tag for a solution as not only >> would two versions of _S_format_float be necessary, but also num_get >> due to the pr