Re: wide char support and -fshort-wchar option

[Mallikarjun Goudar <mallikarjun.gouda@gmail.com>]

On 1 August 2014 21:04, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Mallikarjun Goudar
> <mallikarjun.gouda@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to use wchar_t as unsigned short. I used -fshort-wchar
>> option to make this happen.
>> But i get following warnings when compile and link a test case.
>>
>> 'libc.a(ansi_files.o) uses 4-byte wchar_t yet the output is to use
>> 2-byte wchar_t; use of wchar_t values across objects may fail"'
>>
>> To resolve this, i should be rebuilding gcc libraries with -fshort-wchar option?
>
> libc.a is not a GCC library.  It's the C library, which does not come
> with GCC.  To avoid that warning you will have to rebuild libc.a.  Or,
> of course, you can ignore the warning and be careful not to pass
> wchar_t values to libc.
>
> Ian


Hi Ian,

Thanks for the reply.

//mallikarjuna