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Re: wprintf is not a new ISO C99 function
- To: Markus dot Kuhn at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk
- Subject: Re: wprintf is not a new ISO C99 function
- From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:00:41 +0200
- CC: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <E13bkr2-0002UR-00@wisbech.cl.cam.ac.uk>
> All these functions have been part of the C89 standard since amendment 1
> (1994).
The understanding is that glibc does not explicitly support Amd1, so
it's either C89 or C99.
> They are NOT new additions to ISO C99 and should therefore be added
> unconditionally by default. If someone adds #include <wchar.h> to her
> source code, then she will most definitely also want to have these old
> functions included.
That is a good point, though - why should anything in wchar.h be
conditional on C99?
Regards,
Martin