X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/90e572f1e5af1e51fd14e2e1e6f64fa3e258e590..48e5284db6d6f1dab46a81a4ae0d0438ea37bd6e:/include/wx/string.h

diff --git a/include/wx/string.h b/include/wx/string.h
index 01f053d807..ac55f5c5f9 100644
--- a/include/wx/string.h
+++ b/include/wx/string.h
@@ -934,16 +934,19 @@ public:
     { *this = str + *this; return *this; }
 
     // non-destructive concatenation
-      //
-  friend wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(const wxString& string1,  const wxString& string2);
-      //
+      // two strings
+  friend wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(const wxString& string1,
+                                             const wxString& string2);
+      // string with a single char
   friend wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(const wxString& string, wxChar ch);
-      //
+      // char with a string
   friend wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(wxChar ch, const wxString& string);
-      //
-  friend wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(const wxString& string, const wxChar *psz);
-      //
-  friend wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(const wxChar *psz, const wxString& string);
+      // string with C string
+  friend wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(const wxString& string,
+                                             const wxChar *psz);
+      // C string with string
+  friend wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(const wxChar *psz,
+                                             const wxString& string);
 
   // stream-like functions
       // insert an int into string
@@ -1292,16 +1295,16 @@ public:
     { return (wxString&)wxStringBase::operator+=(ch); }
 };
 
-// IBM xlC compiler needs these operators to be declared in global scope,
-// although this shouldn't be a problem for the other compilers we prefer to
-// only do it for it in stable 2.6 branch
-#ifdef __IBMCPP__
+// notice that even though for many compilers the friend declarations above are
+// enough, from the point of view of C++ standard we must have the declarations
+// here as friend ones are not injected in the enclosing namespace and without
+// them the code fails to compile with conforming compilers such as xlC or g++4
 wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(const wxString& string1,  const wxString& string2);
 wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(const wxString& string, wxChar ch);
 wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(wxChar ch, const wxString& string);
 wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(const wxString& string, const wxChar *psz);
 wxString WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE operator+(const wxChar *psz, const wxString& string);
-#endif // __IBMCPP__
+
 
 // define wxArrayString, for compatibility
 #if WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 && !wxUSE_STL