From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 14 17:32:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.22.194.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C8237B423 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 17:32:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4F0WNZ15637 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 02:32:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA19267 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 02:32:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 41817 invoked by uid 1001); 15 May 2001 00:32:22 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 02:32:22 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wint_t Message-ID: <20010515023221.A41666@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010514164401.A61243@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010514164401.A61243@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:44:01PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:44:01PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > What is the proper definition of wint_t? curses.h has it as a "long int", > however NetBSD (and GCC's libstdc++) has it as an "int". > I think either definition is fine. It should be at least as wide as a wchar_t. stddef.h has wchar_t as "int" while curses.h defines wchar_t (if it isn't defined in stddef.h) as "unsigned long". The C standard says that wchar_t should be able to all members of thye largest extended chracter set. AFAIK FreeBSD doesn't have any character set which requires more than 8 bits. wint_t should also be able to hold all members of the largest character set plus one extra value (WEOF). Also it must be at least 16 bits. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message