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

[<dan...@ya...>]

Hello mingw-users

The following functions declared in wchar.h are not available in
msvcrt.dll. They *are* in msvcp60.dll, amongst all the C++ names.
btowc
mbrlen
mbrtowc
mbsrtowcs
wcrtomb
wcsrtombs
wctob

A patch to comment out the declarations in wchar.h has been submitted.

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?

Danny

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