Re: [REVISED PATCH 2/9]: C++ P0482R5 char8_t: Core language support

[Tom Honermann <tom@honermann.net>]

On 1/14/19 2:58 PM, Jason Merrill wrote:
> On 12/23/18 9:27 PM, Tom Honermann wrote:
>> Attached is a revised patch that addresses changes in P0482R6 as well 
>> as feedback provided by Jason. Changes from the prior patch include:
>> - Updated the value of the __cpp_char8_t feature test macro to 201811
>>    per P0482R6.
>> - Enable char8_t support with -std=c++2a per adoption of P0482R6 in
>>    San Diego.
>> - Reverted the unnecessary changes to gcc/gcc/c/c-typeck.c as requested
>>    by Jason.
>> - Removed unnecessary checks of 'flag_char8_t' within the C++ front
>>    end as requested by Jason.
>> - Corrected the regression spotted by Jason regarding initialization of
>>    signed char and unsigned char arrays with string literals.
>> - Made minor changes to the error message emitted for ill-formed
>>    initialization of char arrays with UTF-8 string literals. These
>>    changes do not yet implement Jason's suggestion; I'll follow up 
>> with a
>>    separate patch for that due to additional test impact.
>>
>> Tested on x86_64-linux.
>
> I just applied the compiler changes with small modifications, as 
> follows; thank you very much for the patches.  Jonathan should check 
> in the library portion before long.

Excellent, thank you, Jason!

Tom.

>
> Jason