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Subject: Re: Changing WCHAR_TYPE from "long int" to "int"?
From: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
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> Yes. Gcc won't even compile since cpp uses MAX_WCHAR_TYPE_SIZE, which
> is defined as WCHAR_TYPE_SIZE and has be to a constant. But mips'
> BITS_PER_WORD is not avaiable for cpp. Besides, we use 32bit wchar_t
> on most of the 64bit Linux targets. Why do we want to use 64 for
> mips64? Check out WCHAR_TYPE_SIZE on ia64 and alpha, which are all
> 64bit Linux targets.
> 

Right.  alpha doesn't define WCHAR_TYPE_SIZE, ia64 seems to do what you
want...

-eric


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