X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48370FA3.8060208@tlinx.org> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 11:40:35 -0700 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11 References: <17275355.post@talk.nabble.com> <17359564.post@talk.nabble.com> <4835C5F9.7010201@tlinx.org> <48362283.2010103@byu.net> In-Reply-To: <48362283.2010103@byu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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". 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/