#ifndef STRFWD_H
#define STRFWD_H
-// This includes does nothing but defining _LIBCPP_VERSION
-// if libc++ is used (rather than libstdc++) - we first
-// check if we have at least a c++03 standard before
-// including the file
-#if (__cplusplus > 199711L)
-#include <ciso646>
-#endif
-
#ifdef USE_WCHAR_T
// Prefer this if possible because GNU libstdc++ has usable
#endif
// Forward definitions do not work with libc++
-#ifdef _LIBCPP_VERSION
+// For gcc5 with the new std::string ABI forward declarations would work in
+// principle, but I am not sure whether we want non-standard
+// "namespace __cxx11" in our sources.
+#if defined(USE_LLVM_LIBCPP) || defined(USE_GLIBCXX_CXX11_ABI)
#include <string>
#else
namespace lyx {
-/// String type for storing the main text in UCS4 encoding
+/**
+ * String type for storing the main text in UCS4 encoding.
+ * Use std::string only in cases 7-bit ASCII is to be manipulated
+ * within the variable.
+ */
typedef std::basic_string<char_type, std::char_traits<char_type>,
std::allocator<char_type> > docstring;
// defined in docstring.cpp
bool operator==(docstring const &, char const *);
+#ifdef STD_STRING_USES_COW
+template<typename Char> class trivial_string;
+typedef trivial_string<char> trivstring;
+typedef trivial_string<char_type> trivdocstring;
+#else
+typedef std::string trivstring;
+typedef docstring trivdocstring;
+#endif
+
} // namespace lyx
#endif