Re: [patchset] rewrite of initializer handling

[Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@redhat.com>]

Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:15:49PM +0200, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
>> Not sure if this is a poll but -Wparen-string doesn't add any new
>> warnings to the Wine run. And Wine has a "strange" way of specifying
>> wide char strings.
> 
> Oh?  FWIW, C99 way is L"......" for wide string literals and L'...' for
I know but that is not portable. A wchar is 16bit on Windows and 32bit 
in the normal world. gcc has the -fshort-wchar switch to make a wchar 
16bit but that still produces problems; afair when bridging between the 
hosts native 32bit wchar and Windows 16bit wchar. To avoid that Wine uses:
WCHAR s[] = {'H','e','l','l','o',' ','W','o','r','l','d',0};

> wide character ones.  sparse doesn't handle either and I'm not sure if
> we really want to open that can of worms...
There are only 6 .c files (out of around 2000) that do not parse in Wine 
due to missing support wide char character constant / string literal.
I had a look at sparse on how to fix it but it seems to require more 
than some trivial changes. I mean to implement it correctly and not just 
to stop sparse from mis parsing the rest of the file too.

bye
	michael
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