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Re: Changing WCHAR_TYPE from "long int" to "int"?


On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 03:41:28PM +0100, Eric Christopher wrote:

> Hrm.  You might be right.  I was thinking that would be correct though.
> AFAICT from reading the c++ standard, it doesn't care about the size of
> wchar_t as long as it is large enough to hold the values from the
> supported locales.
> 
> Perhaps some c++ expert could help with this a bit?  Benjamin is there a
> problem if wchar_t becomes 64-bits?

On 64-bit MIPS ABI compliant machines I see wchar_t defined to __int32_t
which again is int.

  Ralf


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