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From: Douglas Coup <dcoup@obj-sys.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc: LC_MESSAGES
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 18:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ec22a55-c5d6-d425-02fe-ec9508a30275@obj-sys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD8GWsv60NNtaAy_4rDfKUDGMEC4UgfiOMZFzAVng2908KPaFg@mail.gmail.com>


On 1/9/2019 1:14 PM, Lee wrote:
> On 1/9/19, JonY  wrote:
>> On 1/8/19 9:26 PM, Lee wrote:
>>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/locale.h.html
>>> has a note for LC_MESSAGES:
>>>    The functionality described is an extension to the ISO C standard.
>>>    Application developers may make use of an extension as it is
>>>    supported on all POSIX.1-2017-conforming systems.
>>>
>>> i686-w64-mingw32-gcc doesn't have LC_MESSAGES defined.
>>> Is that an oversight, something missing in windows, or .. ??
>>>
>> Windows MSVCR isn't POSIX nor ISO C compliant, so you shouldn't be
>> referring to opengroups, only against MSDN.
> What's a Windows MSVCR?
>
> Since the same program compiled with cygwins' gcc has LC_MESSAGES
> defined, I was guessing it was just a library thing and maybe it just
> hadn't been implemented in the mingw libraries yet.. but it sounds
> like it's not an oversight & Microsoft needs to support LC_MESSAGES
> before i686-w64-mingw32-gcc will.  Is that about right?
>
> Thanks,
> Lee
>
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MSVCR = MicroSoft Visual C Run-time (I think)

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-09 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-08 21:26 Lee
2019-01-09 10:21 ` JonY
2019-01-09 18:14   ` Lee
2019-01-09 18:19     ` Douglas Coup [this message]
2019-01-09 19:43       ` Lee
2019-01-09 23:41         ` Brian Inglis
2019-01-10  0:07           ` Lee
2019-01-09 23:43         ` JonY
2019-01-10  0:51           ` Lee

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