Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:33:57 +0100 | From | walter harms <> | Subject | Re: [patch v2] x86, efi: fix pointer math issue in handle_ramdisks() |
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Am 16.03.2012 20:55, schrieb H. Peter Anvin: > On 03/06/2012 12:44 AM, walter harms wrote: >>> >> hi, >> >> yep, but i was asking about efi. The basic idea is of cause to map efi_char16_t -> wchar_t >> and back and make this a prototype for every driver that needs a special charset. >> That would make it possible to recycle the wcs* interface of libc. >> IMHO it seems more reasonable than adding one for each (upcoming) type. >> > > Actually libc and the C standard is going the opposite ways, adding new > interfaces for UTF-16 and UTF-32. The wchar_t interface just doesn't > work very well. >
I admit i do not have the problem yet and i do not like the idea adding even more types. Oh well may i should be happy that someone is actually thinking about this here and not simply add yet on other hot fix.
re, wh
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