From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: bug in mbrtowc?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090728110538.GR18621@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A6ED4D6.5080905@gmail.com>
On Jul 28 11:37, Dave Korn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > That's a bug in the newlib function __utf8_mbtowc. I'm really surprised
> > that this bug has never been reported before since it's in the code for
> > years, probably since it has been introduced in 2002.
>
> I'm not terribly surprised. How much use for i18n is there in the typical
> embedded microcontroller? We're probably the first project to really use this
> code in anger(*);
After having sent my mail I started to wonder as well. Unicode and
wide-char support in a 64K RAM board sounds like waste. I had expected
that RTEMS is using this a bit more, though.
> cf. also how we still shake out the odd longstanding
> floating point bug in newlib, another area that is significantly less-used in
> tiny embedded apps than on desktop workstations.
plus the entirely missing area of long double support.
Corinna
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2009-07-28 10:24 ` Dave Korn
2009-07-28 11:05 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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