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

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

--- Danny Smith <dan...@ya...> wrote:
> 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?
> 

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

Cheers,

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

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