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Re: Use WCHAR_UNSIGNED when interpreting wide charconsts

From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
Cc: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej at wasabisystems dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org,Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 20:55:48 +0000
Subject: Re: Use WCHAR_UNSIGNED when interpreting wide charconsts
References: <20020223204335.GB8351@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202232048530.17495-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>

Joseph S. Myers wrote:-

> Have you checked the various definitions of WCHAR_UNSIGNED and made sure
> that all targets get a definition that corresponds correctly with their
> definition of wchar_t?  (Since the macro hasn't been used, some
> definitions may well be wrong.)

No, I don't consider that to be in the scope of the patch.

> Could you create a testcase that tests
> that the compiler and preprocessor agree about the signedness of wchar_t?

Would such a test run on all systems?  In other words, is wchar_t going
to be typedef-ed everywhere?  If so, it sounds easy.  Otherwise I don't
think so.

Neil.

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