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Re: Changing WCHAR_TYPE from "long int" to "int"?

To: Ralf Baechle <ralf at oss dot sgi dot com>
Subject: Re: Changing WCHAR_TYPE from "long int" to "int"?
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:29:41 -0700
Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>,Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,linux-mips at oss dot sgi dot com,GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <20010805094806.A3146@lucon.org> <20010806115913.B17179@bacchus.dhis.org> <hoofptjy6k.fsf@gee.suse.de> <20010806182050.A21142@bacchus.dhis.org>

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 06:20:50PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 
> H.J. - why did you want to change this type anyway?  "long int" and "int"
> both have the same size and signedness so there isn't any incompatibility
> anyway?
> 

All Linux targets should use a 32bit type, `int', for wchar_t. `long'
is 64bit for mips64.

Like I said, we don't use the mips API, only the ABI.

H.J.

References:
- Changing WCHAR_TYPE from "long int" to "int"?
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: Changing WCHAR_TYPE from "long int" to "int"?
  - From: Ralf Baechle
- Re: Changing WCHAR_TYPE from "long int" to "int"?
  - From: Andreas Jaeger
- Re: Changing WCHAR_TYPE from "long int" to "int"?
  - From: Ralf Baechle

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