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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:04:55 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: rebuild libc.a with MB_CAPABLE defined
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:32:17PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:22:39 +1100
>>>> "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> said:
>
>> At a guess, you'll need to do more than just define MB_CAPABLE. Chances
>> are, it's disabled because cygwin is not MB_CAPABLE :}.
>
>You misunderstand the role of the MB_CAPABLE definition in newlib.
>The feature enabled by this definition can work on any platform.

Has anyone proposed a patch to newlib to make this behavior the default
for Cygwin?

cgf

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