[uClibc]wchar.h

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Tue Nov 13 10:43:20 UTC 2001


On Sun Nov 11, 2001 at 06:00:10PM +0100, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on my Intel plattform wchar.h is missing in the uClibc installation. There
> are three identical files in
> 
>   ./libc/sysdeps/linux/mipsel/bits/wchar.h
>   ./libc/sysdeps/linux/powerpc/bits/wchar.h
>   ./libc/sysdeps/linux/arm/bits/wchar.h
> 
> but no one for intel and no one is installed in
> /usr/i386-linux-uclibc/include.

wchar is for widechar (multibyte char) support.  This is
currently not supported in uClibc.  I've not even looked into
what it would take to add widechar support.  I suspect that
proper wide char support will require some ugly changes to the
string handling code, and the rest of the library will need to be
audited for wide char safety.

If/when wchar support is added, it will definately need to be
an optional feature,

 -Erik

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