[ejoy@peoplemail.com.cn: missing wcsncmp,wcscpy,wcsncpy and more...]

[J. Johnston]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> It looks like #2 below is a newlib problem.
> 
> cgf
> 

Yes.  A patch has been checked in.

-- Jeff J.

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> 
> From: Zhang Le <ejoy@peoplemail.com.cn>
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: missing wcsncmp,wcscpy,wcsncpy and more...
> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 18:11:06 +0800
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> Reply-To: ejoy@peoplemail.com.cn
> Organization: NEU
> 
> Hi all,
>   I'm new to cygwin and have some questions after trying latest release of
> cygwin:
> 1.some wcs* family functions are missing in libc namely:
>         wcsncmp,wcscpy,wcsncpy and perhaps others though they have been
>         decalared in wchar.h
> 
>     And it seems there's a wcslen() in newlib.I don't know why others are
> missing.I think maybe the maintainer of newlib forget to add the above
> functions(or intend to do so ?)
> 
> 2.function prototypes in wchar.h and wctype.h should be placed in
>    #ifdef __cplusplus
>    extern "C" {
>    }
>    #endif
> 
>    the missing of above Marco in current wchar.h cause a link error when I try
> to link my program with my replacement wcs funcs from glibc.(using
> AC_REPLACE_FUNCS in configure)
> 
> 3.gcc3.2 for mingw&cygwin does not support *wstring* so far(cause a link error
> on libstdc++), but the linux gcc3.2 has *wstring* support in libstdc++.
>   I have to use gcc-2 instead if I want to write some *wstring* aware
> applications.
> 
> 4.the latest cygwin seems does not work under a beta version of MS .net
> standard server(build 3607).will it support official version of .net in the
> future?
> 
> Any tips?
> Thanks in advance.
> --
>                                        Sincerely yours,
>                                                   Zhang Le
> 
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