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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 16:41:16 +0100 (MET)
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > If other versions of GCC do the right thing, it is probably a
> > configuration problem.
[...]
> When you set up gcc for a given target, you have to configure it to
> match the target.  If we're supporting windows, we should reconfigure
> gcc to use 16-bit wide characters.  However, you'll have to rebuild
> *all* of libc to support them properly (after fixing the wchar type in
> the system headers).

Just to get this into me own head: isn't it RSXNTDJ we're talking about
here, i.e. DJGPP's own libc is not really part of the game, originally?
But to continue to use RSXNTDJ, we'ld need a gcc configured for wchar_t ==
short int, unlike DJGPP's wchar_t == int. 

Which would mean either we modify DJGPP's libc and the i?86-pc-msdosdjgpp
gcc settings (simultaneously!) just to allow the RSXNTDJ addon to continue
working, or RSXNTDJ would have to bite the bullet and bring its own
custom-configured gcc. The latter would invalidate almost all of the point
there ever was in having RSXNTDJ, instead of using RSX with emx, or
Cygwin.

The former would mean a cartload of work, for some volunteer, and
considerable coordination to avoid confusion by non-compatible versions of
gcc and the libc. We might be forced to proclaim DJGPP version 3.0 just
for this minor gotcha :-(

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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