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Subject: Re: Changing WCHAR_TYPE from "long int" to "int"?
From: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
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> I don't know if this is an good idea. BITS_PER_WORD is 64bit for mips64,
> this might be wrong for wchar_t. At least the code for irix6 defines
> WCHAR_TYPE_SIZE == 32.
> 

Hrm.  You might be right.  I was thinking that would be correct though.
AFAICT from reading the c++ standard, it doesn't care about the size of
wchar_t as long as it is large enough to hold the values from the
supported locales.

Perhaps some c++ expert could help with this a bit?  Benjamin is there a
problem if wchar_t becomes 64-bits?

-eric

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