Re[2]: [Mingw-users] missing ISO C89/C99 functions in runtime

[Paul S. <pa...@is...>]

Hello Earnie,

Earnie Boyd <ear...@ya...> wrote on Tuesday, December 05, 2000:

EB> --- Danny Smith <dan...@ya...> wrote:
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>> Public domain code for these functions is in the Q8_2 package
>> (http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/q8) by Douglas Gwyn, who is on the ISO C9x
>> WG14 committee.  I am currently testing this code under mingw.
>>
>> Question:  should these ANSI standard functions, other ISO C89
>> functions that are missing from msvcrt.dll (eg, mbsinit, wmemchr,
>> wmemcmp,wmemmove, wmwemset, wmemcpy), and C99 functions
>> (eg strtoimax and friends, vwscanf and friends) be provided as a static
>> lib (libnewISO.a?, libnewnames.a?) for mingw?
>>

EB> I like the libnewnames.a, it goes well with libmoldnames.a and libcoldnames.a,
EB> and yes I think it wise.  Once the name is decided let me know and I'll add it
EB> as a package.

    My HO if it's separate library (not just proxy), it is worth a
better name. What about libc.a ? ;-)

    Related question - should we add -liberty as the implicitly
linkable, it contains getopt which should be in libc.

EB> Cheers,

EB> =====
EB> Earnie Boyd
EB> mailto:ear...@ya...


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