Do I understand correctly that the current GCC implementation of
std::string is non-conforming, because it does ref-counting + copy-on-write?
If so, is there some compiler flag to switch to a conforming
(non-ref-counting) std::string implementation?
If I understand well, the Versatile String, __versa_string from
<ext/vstring.h> provides such an implementation, right? Is there an
easy way to recompile existing user code that uses std::string, in order
to switch to a non-ref-counting implementation?
Apologies for my ignorance,
Kind regards,
Niels
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Niels Dekker
http://www.xs4all.nl/~nd/dekkerware
Scientific programmer at LKEB, Leiden University Medical Center
