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Re: Add xdr support


On Feb 15 00:48, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > You could make the same argument for much of the functionality we've
> > added to cygwin.  I'm sure a significant number of functions could be
> > added to newlib if we were so inclined.  Just take a look at the libc
> > directory or the regex directory.
> 
> Good points.  regex functions are also typically provided by libc.so,
> yet cygwin has its own versions not provided by newlib...

Regex has some history.  For the last set from 2 weeks ago (which has
apparently some well-hidden bug) I felt rather sick when thinking about
having to add all that _MB_CAPABLE stuff.  I never actually contemplated
to add it to newlib :}

> > (And I hate having to use _DEFUN in the year 2010)
> 
> Yeah, that was...icky.

ACK.


Corinna

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