On Apr 3 23:49, Dave Korn wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Apr 3 14:18, Dave Korn wrote: > >> Dave Korn wrote: > >>> I've got a bit of a load on right now what with gcc back in stage1. > >> However, as part of dealing with that I did try throwing together one of > >> these. I wrote this from scratch based solely on reading n1040; it's > >> skeletal, but at least provides the two new unicode typedefs. Want it? > > > > Care to explain? > > > > - What's n1040? > > An extension to the language standard specified by the ISO/IEC > JTC1/SC22/WG14 working group for the C language and targeted for the > forthcoming C1X update. > > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/ > > and specifically > > http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/projects#19769 > > TR 19769: New character types in C > > WG14 is working on a TR on new character types, including support for UTF-16. > The title is: TR 19769 - Extensions for the programming language C to support > new character data types. The latest draft, approved for publication, is in > document N1040.
Thank you, I read it now. Apart from thinking that it's a tad bit early to introduce this header, I also think this would better fit into newlib. Btw, the functionality is quite easy to hack. If this actually becomes a standard, we can very quickly introduce the header *and* the implementation. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
