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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:35:11 +0100 (MET)
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: wchar.h #ifndef question
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On Fri, 18 Dec 1998 snowball3 AT usa DOT net wrote:

> While trying to compile the libstdc++ v3 snapshot, I came across 
> the problem that mbstate_t wasn't defined. Turns out that that 
> mbstate_t isn't defined because of _POSIX_SOURCE being 
> defined. I was wondering why the the items in wchar.h were put in 
> the non-ANSI section since they are indeed ANSI and will be 
> needed by stdc++ v3?

Briefly put: because they only became ANSI rather recently. In the
original ANSI standard, there was no such thing as <wchar.h>, at all. It
was introduced by one of the amendments made to the standards, later on,
but DJGPP did not really follow the standard that closely.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.