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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 21:00:03 +0100
From: Markus Wichmann <nullplan@....net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: Use __WCHAR_TYPE__ for wchar_t if defined
On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 08:08:36AM +0100, alice wrote:
> On Sat Feb 4, 2023 at 7:30 AM CET, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> > When building with -fshort-wchar the definition of wchar_t is
> > incorrect. Get the correct definition from the compiler if available.
> >
> > This is useful when reusing the freestanding parts of musl on a
> > bare-metal target that uses -fshort-wchar.
>
> somebody talked about this in 2015, see
> https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2015/02/18/2
> for the previous discussion.
>
> i understand in this case it's proposed a little different-
> "reusing freestanding parts" as opposed to building a whole libc.so, but in
> that case you could most likely patch this in when reusing it standalone only?
>
> it doesn't seem a good idea for it to be there, in general.
Seconded. A lot of code in musl depends on wchar_t being able to hold
the current maximum Unicode codepoint of 0x10FFFF at least, so the type
must be at least 21 bits.
Ciao,
Markus
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