SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

Alexander Churanov alexanderchuranov at gmail.com
Wed May 6 13:20:03 UTC 2009


2009/5/6 Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se>:
> The C standard has very few requirements on wchar_t.  It is up to each
> implementation to decide how wchar_t is defined.
> There is nothing which prevents the FreeBSD project from deciding
> that on FreeBSD wchar_t is always 32 bits wide, which can then be relied
> upon in FreeBSD-specific code.  It is not like somebody else will change
> the relevant include files without warning.

Ah, then wchar_t is for internal usage? Then it's OK.

Alexander Churanov


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