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From: "Stephen Silver" <djgpp AT argentum DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: stdint.h
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 22:10:47 -0000
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > > +#define WCHAR_MAX 32767
> >
> > WCHAR_MAX should be 65535, since wchar_t is defined as an unsigned short
> > in sys/djtypes.h
>
> You are right.  Thanks for catching this.

Also WINT_MIN should be -2147483648 rather than 0, since it's defined
as int.

> > (and it will need to hold values higher than 32767 if it is ever to
> > be used for Unicode).
>
> 64K isn't enough for Unicode anyway, only for the BMP.

Section 5.2 of the Unicode Standard disagrees with you, as it
talks about using wchar_t for Unicode, and makes it clear that
a 16-bit wchar_t is quite sufficient.  Unicode is designed to
be 16-bit - that's why it has surrogate pairs.

Stephen