Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 12:01:25 +0200 (WET) From: Andris Pavenis To: "Mark E." cc: DJ Delorie , djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Wide string functions available In-Reply-To: <199809111938.TAA144020@out4.ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Mark E. wrote: > > > > until it stabilizes. Plus, 2.02 is in (almost) beta, which means no > > new functionality until it releases. > > > > In that case, then include include/wchar.h and include/wctype.h in > the distrubution, but stripped of the function prototypes but leaving > everything else. That way, when stdlibc++ is upgraded to the > current version of SGI's STL, compiling their string class won't > generate a complaint about missing headers. > I better suggest to use some define (e.g. -D__EXPERIMENTAL__ or something like) to enable experimental stuff. Such way should allow us to hide functionality that is not tested enough from most users and and still have this all in libc.a to allow using it by those who understands what they are doing. So these features will be tested more widely and and perhaps will sooner ready for general user. One more suggestion. Such experimental header can issue warning that they contain experimental stuff. For example even stable Linux kernels (2.0.XX) contains some features that are marked as experimental. Andris