Re: mbstate_t oddity on HP-UX 11.00

[Albert Chin-A-Young]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:31:08PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:23:31AM -0600, Albert Chin-A-Young wrote:
> > So, do we need a C and C++ check for mbstate_t?
> > 
> > Note that mbstate_t is usred in lib/fnmatch.c and lib/regex.c but in
> > 2.4.4, there was no autoconf check for it. Any reason the autoconf
> > check was introduced?
> 
> It's used conditionally based on this check (and some others), though
> fnmatch.c has it disabled for some reason.  (I don't think it should; we
> very well might have MBCS filenames locally.  I occasionally do, with
> UTF-8, but I'm not using the replacement versions of these functions so
> it doesn't affect me.)  We use MBCS functions directly now, so we need to
> know if it's available.  (We assume the FTP server's terminal encoding is
> the same as the local terminal's; not a very good assumption, but it's the
> best we can do in a terminal interface.)

So do I make a separate C, C++ autoconf check for mbstate_t?

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albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])