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On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:40:35AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> 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'.
>> |
>> |     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.
>
>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".

Either check out the newlib web site at http://sourceware.org/newlib or
ask about newlib in the newlib mailing list.

cgf

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