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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 01:43:34 +0100
From: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@...onical.com>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com, Milan P. Stanić
<mps@...anta.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] honor __WCHAR_TYPE__ on x86_64, arm, arm64,
riscv64
On 1/11/22 01:36, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 01:25:18AM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>> Some programs like U-Boot are compiled with GCC option -fshort-wchar.
>> In this case wchar_t must be a 16 bit type.
>
> This is not something you can just change with an option. The wchar_t
> type is an ABI contract with the library functions that take (or take
> pointers to) wchar_t.
>
> Can you explain how this actually comes up in the applications so we
> can look into getting them fixed?
See https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/13411
Best regards
Heinrich
>
>> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@...onical.com>
>> ---
>> arch/aarch64/bits/alltypes.h.in | 5 +++++
>> arch/arm/bits/alltypes.h.in | 4 ++++
>> arch/riscv64/bits/alltypes.h.in | 4 ++++
>> arch/x86_64/bits/alltypes.h.in | 4 ++++
>> 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/aarch64/bits/alltypes.h.in b/arch/aarch64/bits/alltypes.h.in
>> index c547ca0b..c0263348 100644
>> --- a/arch/aarch64/bits/alltypes.h.in
>> +++ b/arch/aarch64/bits/alltypes.h.in
>> @@ -11,8 +11,13 @@
>> #define __LONG_MAX 0x7fffffffffffffffL
>>
>> #ifndef __cplusplus
>> +#ifdef __WCHAR_TYPE__
>> +TYPEDEF __WCHAR_TYPE__ wchar_t;
>> +#else
>> TYPEDEF unsigned wchar_t;
>> #endif
>> +#endif
>> +
>> TYPEDEF unsigned wint_t;
>>
>> TYPEDEF int blksize_t;
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/bits/alltypes.h.in b/arch/arm/bits/alltypes.h.in
>> index d62bd7bd..9596466b 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/bits/alltypes.h.in
>> +++ b/arch/arm/bits/alltypes.h.in
>> @@ -12,8 +12,12 @@
>> #define __LONG_MAX 0x7fffffffL
>>
>> #ifndef __cplusplus
>> +#ifdef __WCHAR_TYPE__
>> +TYPEDEF __WCHAR_TYPE__ wchar_t;
>> +#else
>> TYPEDEF unsigned wchar_t;
>> #endif
>> +#endif
>>
>> TYPEDEF float float_t;
>> TYPEDEF double double_t;
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv64/bits/alltypes.h.in b/arch/riscv64/bits/alltypes.h.in
>> index 4579d174..f8f8b7e5 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv64/bits/alltypes.h.in
>> +++ b/arch/riscv64/bits/alltypes.h.in
>> @@ -6,8 +6,12 @@
>> #define __LONG_MAX 0x7fffffffffffffffL
>>
>> #ifndef __cplusplus
>> +#ifdef __WCHAR_TYPE__
>> +TYPEDEF __WCHAR_TYPE__ wchar_t;
>> +#else
>> TYPEDEF int wchar_t;
>> #endif
>> +#endif
>>
>> TYPEDEF int blksize_t;
>> TYPEDEF unsigned int nlink_t;
>> diff --git a/arch/x86_64/bits/alltypes.h.in b/arch/x86_64/bits/alltypes.h.in
>> index 5cd8a299..748ff632 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86_64/bits/alltypes.h.in
>> +++ b/arch/x86_64/bits/alltypes.h.in
>> @@ -6,8 +6,12 @@
>> #define __LONG_MAX 0x7fffffffffffffffL
>>
>> #ifndef __cplusplus
>> +#ifdef __WCHAR_TYPE__
>> +TYPEDEF __WCHAR_TYPE__ wchar_t;
>> +#else
>> TYPEDEF int wchar_t;
>> #endif
>> +#endif
>>
>> #if defined(__FLT_EVAL_METHOD__) && __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ == 2
>> TYPEDEF long double float_t;
>> --
>> 2.33.1
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