Re: wstring support in GCC 4.1.2 in Cygwin 1.5.25-11

[Linda Walsh <cygwin at tlinx dot org>]

Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Linda Walsh on 5/22/2008 1:14 PM:
> |     Linux doesn't support double-wide characters in its
> | system calls -- it's all in 'glibc'.
> |
> |     Cygwin doesn't need to support unicode anymore than
> | the linux kernel does.  It's whoever built the gcc/glib
> | packages that needs to supply that application-level (not
> | system-level) datatype.
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> Please get your terms straight.  glib is something MUCH different than
> glibc.  glib is ported to cygwin, glibc is not.  glib is a graphics
> library, glibc is an implementation of libc.  Cygwin uses newlib as its
> implementation of libc.  And that's why cygwin doesn't support wstring -
> because newlib does not have very complete wide character support.
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	Where did 'newlib' come from?  I "thought", that newlib had
originally been designed as a 'bootstrapping' library in order to get
some minimal and widely used set of gnu-library functions up and running
so other gnu utils could also get "up & running".

	Wasn't it planned to bring in the full glibc at one point? --
and sorry for my terminology -- I'm often a lazy typist -- my typing
isn't what it used to be -- due to nerve impingements...I usually do
ok, but it depends on how much I've pushed, how tired or taxed I am...
I knew the correct name of glibc -- as put in quotes in the first
sentence...was latter on in 'backrefs', I got more lazy...sigh
l



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