On 14/05/15 01:30, Bruno Haible wrote:
[CCing bug-gnulib to share the understanding about i18n issues]
Pádraig Brady wrote on 13.05.2015:
MB_LEN_MAX was changed from 6 to 16 with:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;f=include/limits.h;h=d64b6ad075
Do you know why the value 16
Bruno Haible wrote:
for a long time the declaration of a local variable
char buf[MB_CUR_MAX];
required GCC or C++
It still does, right? Since C11 no longer requires support for variable length
arrays.
[CCing bug-gnulib to share the understanding about i18n issues]
Pádraig Brady wrote on 13.05.2015:
MB_LEN_MAX was changed from 6 to 16 with:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;f=include/limits.h;h=d64b6ad075
Do you know why the value 16 is used exactly?
This was motivated either