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Re: [MiNT] mintlib wide character overhaul

On 03/01/13 10:49, Eero Tamminen wrote:

Hi,

On perjantai 01 maaliskuu 2013, Alan Hourihane wrote:

In the latest glibc's we have stdio-common/ and libio/ which need to be
merged with the existing stdio/ directory in the mintlib, given that
mintlib is based off of glibc in this area. I'd even go as far as
replicating the directory structure and then it should be easy enough to
pull in the other locale/ and wcsmbs/ and wctype/ directories to get
wide char and full unicode support, obviously including additional
include file adjustments.

Stdio/printf stuff is one the first things that typically gets pulled
into a binary compiled with MiNTlib, and it makes those binaries huge.

Would inclusion of that new code bloat all *printf() using programs,
or is glibc code more modular so that it might even be smaller than now?


Who knows until the work is done, but I wouldn't expect a massive increase.




This isn't a small task though, but glibc does have unit tests for this
stuff. So as a first hit, it'd be worth dragging those tests over and
just running them to see where we're at.

Having more automated tests available is always good idea though. :-)



Indeed.

Alan.