X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:26:25 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11 Message-ID: <20080523192625.GA23223@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <17275355.post@talk.nabble.com> <17359564.post@talk.nabble.com> <4835C5F9.7010201@tlinx.org> <48362283.2010103@byu.net> <48370FA3.8060208@tlinx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48370FA3.8060208@tlinx.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:40:35AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > 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". Either check out the newlib web site at http://sourceware.org/newlib or ask about newlib in the newlib mailing list. cgf -- 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/