Re: [Synce-devel] -fshort-wchar

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, David Eriksson wrote:

> The issue is that only the latest versions of gcc (gcc 3 & redhat's gcc) 
> has the -fshort-wchar parameter...
> 
> What happens is that if the configure script detects that the compiler has 
> the -fshort-wchar flag, SHORT_WCHAR_FLAGS will be set to "-fshort-wchar".
> 
> If the compiler does not have this flag, SHORT_WCHAR_FLAGS will be set to 
> "-U__WCHAR_TYPE__ -D__WCHAR_TYPE__=short\ unsigned\ int".
> 
> Is this good?

Some question: why you really need to change the size of wchar_t? Can't
you use some other mechanism? I think this will make Synce incompatible
with some other libraries which use wchar_t for real Unicode strings...

CCing linux-utf8,

roozbeh

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