Subject: Re: Commit: wv iconv fix
From: Matt Brubeck (mbrubeck@hmc.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 19:23:06 CST
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> With some luck, the end of iconv problems. I'm thinking that all of our
> iconv problems (wv's text.c and Abi's xap_encodingmanager and ispell code)
> stem from compilers treating "char *" differently than "unsigned char *".
> This may be worth looking into for the ispell code and encoding manager
> code. That is, if this patch works for everyone (which, for once, I think it
> will).
Unfortunately, no.
On PowerPC (among others), char is unsigned by default. The latest patch
is causing a warning and incorrect behavior on PPC Linux, and it is
causing the BeOS/PPC tinderbox to fail with a compiler error (mwcc is
apparently more strict than gcc about signed/unsigned conversions).
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