Re: Possible eval builtin speedup?

2008-03-10 Thread Chet Ramey
Nicolas wrote: I don't really understand this question. What is the role of xmbsrtowcs? Why doesn't mbsrtowcs convert 0x5c to U<0x5c>? I see. I assume that it's a bug in mbsrtowcs. (If you check, xmbsrtowcs isn't used anywhere, so the question is moot.) Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the c

Re: Possible eval builtin speedup?

2008-03-10 Thread Andreas Schwab
Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the role of xmbsrtowcs? Why doesn't mbsrtowcs convert 0x5c to U<0x5c>? SHIFT-JIS defines 0x5c to be the Yen sign . Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key f

Re: Possible eval builtin speedup?

2008-03-10 Thread Nicolas
Thanks for your answer. > > Nevertheless, I don't really understand the purpose of this function. > > Is it supposed to bypass a bug in mbsrtowcs (defined in wchar.h), as > > said in the following commentaries? > > /* xmbsrtowcs.c -- replacement function for mbsrtowcs */ > > /* On some locale

Re: Possible eval builtin speedup?

2008-03-10 Thread Chet Ramey
Nicolas wrote: Jan Schampera wrote: Yea, I didn't look close enough. My fault. Ok, I found the problem: xdupmbstowcs (in file /lib/glob/xmbsrtowcs.c) is painfully slow, because of very frequent calls to realloc. I think this could be optimized. You're probably right, and I see at least one w

Re: Possible eval builtin speedup?

2008-03-10 Thread Nicolas
Jan Schampera wrote: > Yea, I didn't look close enough. My fault. Ok, I found the problem: xdupmbstowcs (in file /lib/glob/xmbsrtowcs.c) is painfully slow, because of very frequent calls to realloc. I think this could be optimized. Nevertheless, I don't really understand the purpose of this funct