From: vischne AT ibm DOT net
Subject: Re: ctype.h and serious programming
17 Feb 1998 17:18:25 -0800
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>   Earnie Boyd (earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com)
>   Tue, 17 Feb 1998 05:40:27 PST
>>From: vischne AT ibm DOT net
>>Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:42:09 GMT
>>If you've done some porting to cygwin, you'll notice that ctype.h often
>>gives syntax errors.  Out of curiosity, I substituted
>>from the linux kernel source for the cygwin version (leaving the cygwin
>>headers in place), and got much cleaner compiles.  Is there a technical
>>reason why , which is a pure macro version, shouldn't
>>replace cygwin's ?
>
>It appears that ctype.h as supplied by cygnus needs some work with the
>#ifdef __GNUC__ ... #endif logic.  Based on the comment "non-gcc
>versions will get the library versions, and will be slightly slower" the
>code should be structured as follows:
>
>#ifdef __GNUC__
>
>#define MACROS
>
>#else
>
>int _EXFUN(...)
>
>#endif
>
I used your idea to rewrite ctype.h, and it seems to work, at least with
tkman1-5, which crashed with earlier versions of ctype.h.  I wonder what
it takes to get it included with the next release?
=========================================================================
<ctype.h>
=========================================================================
#ifndef _CTYPE_H_
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
#define _CTYPE_H_

#ifdef __GNUC__

#define _U	0x01	/* upper */
#define _L	0x02	/* lower */
#define _D	0x04	/* digit */
#define _C	0x08	/* cntrl */
#define _P	0x10	/* punct */
#define _S	0x20	/* white space (space/lf/tab) */
#define _X	0x40	/* hex digit */
#define _SP	0x80	/* hard space (0x20) */

#define isalnum(c) (((unsigned)(c))&(_U|_L|_D))
#define isalpha(c) (((unsigned)(c))&(_U|_L))
#define iscntrl(c) (((unsigned)(c))&(_C))
#define isdigit(c) (((unsigned)(c))&(_D))
#define isgraph(c) (((unsigned)(c))&(_P|_U|_L|_D))
#define islower(c) (((unsigned)(c))&(_L))
#define isprint(c) (((unsigned)(c))&(_P|_U|_L|_D|_SP))
#define ispunct(c) (((unsigned)(c))&(_P))
#define isspace(c) (((unsigned)(c))&(_S))
#define isupper(c) (((unsigned)(c))&(_U))
#define isxdigit(c) (((unsigned)(c))&(_D|_X))

#define isascii(c) (((unsigned)(c))<=0x7f)
#define toascii(c) (((unsigned)(c))&0x7f)

#define tolower(c) (isupper(c)?((c)-('A'-'a')):(c))
#define toupper(c) (islower(c)?((c)-('a'-'A')):(c))

#else /* !GNUC */

#include "_ansi.h"
int _EXFUN(isalnum, (int c));
int _EXFUN(isalpha, (int c));
int _EXFUN(iscntrl, (int c));
int _EXFUN(isdigit, (int c));
int _EXFUN(isgraph, (int c));
int _EXFUN(islower, (int c));
int _EXFUN(isprint, (int c));
int _EXFUN(ispunct, (int c));
int _EXFUN(isspace, (int c));
int _EXFUN(isupper, (int c));
int _EXFUN(isxdigit,(int c));
int _EXFUN(tolower, (int c));
int _EXFUN(toupper, (int c));

#ifndef _STRICT_ANSI
int _EXFUN(isascii, (int c));
int _EXFUN(toascii, (int c));
int _EXFUN(_tolower, (int c));
int _EXFUN(_toupper, (int c));
#endif
#endif /* GNUC */

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif /* _CTYPE_H_ */

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