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Re: [Bug-gnulib] vasnprintf checks for HAVE_WCHAR_T


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnulib] vasnprintf checks for HAVE_WCHAR_T
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:12:49 +0100
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Derek Robert Price wrote:
> I understood that GNULIB had adopted freestanding C89 support as a
> standard.  As I understand it, wchar_t is specified to be in <stddef.h>
> by C89, which is available to freestanding C89 compilers, so why is the
> vasnprintf module checking for it at configure time?

If I remember it correctly, it's because of some Unices from ca. 1990-1994.
They have <stddef.h>, and when used with GCC, they support ANSI C. But
some of them don't have any wide-character facilities. I think SunOS 4
is one of them. Maybe also some more recent but virtually unmaintained
commercial BSDs.

Bruno





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