Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:55:28 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch v2] x86, efi: fix pointer math issue in handle_ramdisks() |
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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.
-hpa
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