mingw compilation fix

[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / string.h

diff --git a/include/wx/string.h b/include/wx/string.h
index 26ac2326f8eb009e4f64ec1a5724109b96ad22bf..c7c6893e30a7d48c022d3ae59625203c1fed55d1 100644 (file)
--- a/include/wx/string.h
+++ b/include/wx/string.h
@@ -287,14 +287,20 @@ private:
   void CopyBeforeWrite();
   void AllocBeforeWrite(size_t);
 
-  // this method is not implemented - there is _no_ conversion from int to
+  // if we hadn't made these operators private, it would be possible to
+  // compile "wxString s; s = 17;" without any warnings as 17 is implicitly
+  // converted to char in C and we do have operator=(char)
+  //
+  // NB: we don't need other versions (short/long and unsigned) as attempt
+  //     to assign another numeric type to wxString will now result in
+  //     ambiguity between operator=(char) and operator=(int)
+  wxString& operator=(int);
+
+  // these methods are not implemented - there is _no_ conversion from int to
   // string, you're doing something wrong if the compiler wants to call it!
   //
   // try `s << i' or `s.Printf("%d", i)' instead
   wxString(int);
-  wxString(unsigned int);
-  wxString(long);
-  wxString(unsigned long);
 
 public:
   // constructors and destructor
@@ -401,6 +407,28 @@ public:
     wxChar& Last()
       { wxASSERT( !IsEmpty() ); CopyBeforeWrite(); return m_pchData[Len()-1]; }
 
+    /*
+        So why do we have all these overloaded operator[]s? A bit of history:
+        initially there was only one of them, taking size_t. Then people
+        started complaining because they wanted to use ints as indices (I
+        wonder why) and compilers were giving warnings about it, so we had to
+        add the operator[](int). Then it became apparent that you couldn't
+        write str[0] any longer because there was ambiguity between two
+        overloads and so you now had to write str[0u] (or, of course, use the
+        explicit casts to either int or size_t but nobody did this).
+
+        Finally, someone decided to compile wxWin on an Alpha machine and got
+        a surprize: str[0u] didn't compile there because it is of type
+        unsigned int and size_t is unsigned _long_ on Alpha and so there was
+        ambiguity between converting uint to int or ulong. To fix this one we
+        now add operator[](uint) for the machines where size_t is not already
+        the same as unsigned int - hopefully this fixes the problem (for some
+        time)
+
+        The only real fix is, of course, to remove all versions but the one
+        taking size_t...
+     */
+
     // operator version of GetChar
     wxChar  operator[](size_t n) const
       { ASSERT_VALID_INDEX( n ); return m_pchData[n]; }
@@ -408,20 +436,20 @@ public:
     // operator version of GetChar
     wxChar  operator[](int n) const
       { ASSERT_VALID_INDEX( n ); return m_pchData[n]; }
-#ifdef __alpha__
-    // operator version of GetChar
-    wxChar  operator[](unsigned int n) const
-      { ASSERT_VALID_INDEX( n ); return m_pchData[n]; }
-#endif
 
     // operator version of GetWriteableChar
     wxChar& operator[](size_t n)
       { ASSERT_VALID_INDEX( n ); CopyBeforeWrite(); return m_pchData[n]; }
-#ifdef __alpha__
+
+#ifndef wxSIZE_T_IS_UINT
+    // operator version of GetChar
+    wxChar operator[](unsigned int n) const
+      { ASSERT_VALID_INDEX( n ); return m_pchData[n]; }
+
     // operator version of GetWriteableChar
-    wxChar&  operator[](unsigned int n)
+    wxChar& operator[](unsigned int n)
       { ASSERT_VALID_INDEX( n ); CopyBeforeWrite(); return m_pchData[n]; }
-#endif
+#endif // size_t != unsigned int
 
     // implicit conversion to C string
     operator const wxChar*() const { return m_pchData; }
@@ -601,7 +629,7 @@ public:
   wxString  operator()(size_t start, size_t len) const
     { return Mid(start, len); }
 
-      // check that the tring starts with prefix and return the rest of the
+      // check that the string starts with prefix and return the rest of the
       // string in the provided pointer if it is not NULL, otherwise return
       // FALSE
   bool StartsWith(const wxChar *prefix, wxString *rest = NULL) const;
@@ -610,7 +638,7 @@ public:
   wxString Left(size_t nCount) const;
       // get last nCount characters
   wxString Right(size_t nCount) const;
-      // get all characters before the first occurence of ch
+      // get all characters before the first occurance of ch
       // (returns the whole string if ch not found)
   wxString BeforeFirst(wxChar ch) const;
       // get all characters before the last occurence of ch