Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Linda Walsh on 5/22/2008 1:14 PM:
| Linux doesn't support double-wide characters in its
| system calls -- it's all in 'glibc'.
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| Cygwin doesn't need to support unicode anymore than
| the linux kernel does. It's whoever built the gcc/glib
| packages that needs to supply that application-level (not
| system-level) datatype.
Please get your terms straight. glib is something MUCH different than
glibc. glib is ported to cygwin, glibc is not. glib is a graphics
library, glibc is an implementation of libc. Cygwin uses newlib as its
implementation of libc. And that's why cygwin doesn't support wstring -
because newlib does not have very complete wide character support.
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Where did 'newlib' come from? I "thought", that newlib had
originally been designed as a 'bootstrapping' library in order to get
some minimal and widely used set of gnu-library functions up and running
so other gnu utils could also get "up & running".
Wasn't it planned to bring in the full glibc at one point? --
and sorry for my terminology -- I'm often a lazy typist -- my typing
isn't what it used to be -- due to nerve impingements...I usually do
ok, but it depends on how much I've pushed, how tired or taxed I am...
I knew the correct name of glibc -- as put in quotes in the first
sentence...was latter on in 'backrefs', I got more lazy...sigh
l
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