[Discussion] Native - Should C++ client support wchar_t type?

[David Kimura]

While working on removing out parameters, we noticed code that makes
assumption that wchar_t is always 16 bits.

virtual void PdxInstance::getField(const char* fieldName, wchar_t& value)
const = 0;

void PdxInstanceImpl::getField(const char* fieldname, wchar_t& value) const
{
    auto dataInput = getDataInputForField(fieldname);
    uint16_t temp = dataInput->readInt16();
    value = static_cast<wchar_t>(temp);
}



According to cppreference[1], this assumption is incorrect.  If that is the
case, should this implementation be fixed or can it be deleted altogether?

Thanks,
David

[1] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/types