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Re: 16bit ctype table



On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:02:53AM +0900, Takehiko NOZAKI wrote:
> > we have to preserve the ABI at least for the old table, since that's
> > what all users of ctype.h compiled against the old version depend on.
> 
> thre is *no* ABI problem that you afraid, we can use different
> _CTYPE_* definition
> between new and old table by split it src/inlucde/ctype.h and
> libc/compat/include/ctype.h trick.
> or we can easily change old _CTYPE_* stuff renameing _COMPAT_CTYPE_*.

Sure, but that still means having two different translation routines.
I don't think this is buying us anything at this point.

Joerg


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