[ros-dev] Re: [ros-svn] [gvg] 14302: Build freeldr as elf executable, initial Xen support

[Filip Navara]

Steven Edwards wrote:

>--- Filip Navara <xnavara at volny.cz> wrote:
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>>Just to let you know, there's no need to change the wide-character 
>>string literals. You can use the -fshort-wchar GCC switch to get the 
>>desired behaviour without touching the sources...
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>I was under the impression short-wchar could differ depending on the platform and thats why
>wide-characters were a no-no in wine. Or is it that only newer gcc's support this option?
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As I understand it it's no-no for Wine because they're using native 
linux libraries (like glibc) and the native libraries (and their 
corresponding headers) expect wchar_t to be the default GCC type.

- Filip