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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: wchar.h?
In-Reply-To: <199903100428.UAA38031@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Mar 9, 1999  8:28:41 pm"
To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 22:49:24 -0800 (PST)
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Archie Cobbs wrote:
> The jikes Java compiler relies on an include file "whcar.h" being
> on the system. However, even if it's not, it includes routines
> to do what it needs... only about 40 lines or so for these functions:
> 
>   wcslen()
>   wcscpy()
>   wcsncpy()
>   wcscat()
>   wcscmp()
>   wcsncmp()
> 
> How come FreeBSD doesn't have these? Is there a complicated problem
> preventing us from adding them?
> 

Look at /usr/include/machine/ansi.h.

It has a brief statement about wchar_t.

-- 
Steve


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