On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, NightStrike wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Jim Michaels <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know who to go to to make this change request to the c library
>>> standard (ANSI C Library?).
>>> it would not break any existing code, but it would make the function EVER
>>> more useful!
>>>
>>
>> Microsoft maintains the library. We just consume it. You'd have to
>> bring this up with MS.
>>
>
> And there is a C standard, and according to it, those macros are plain
> wrong. toupper() has to depend on the locale: see e.g.
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/tolower.html
>
MinGW uses the C runtime library of Microsoft (msvcr*.dll). the definition
of those functions is there. MinGW(-w64) just declare them. There is nothing
the MinGW(-w64) devs can do.
Vincent Torri
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