Re: [MiNT] mintlib wide character overhaul

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On 02/22/13 16:00, Jeffrey Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Alan Hourihane wrote:
>
> > Yes, I'm certainly interested in this, but I'm also interested in how 
> > you've tested the new code. Have you run the new widechar support 
> > against any test suite, rather than just compiling it against Python 
> > 3.3.0 ?
>
> Alan,
>
> All I've done is build against Python 3.3, which seems to be working 
> now. I agree that some actual unit tests would be useful. I'll have a 
> look at what tests musl provides for the code.

Hi Jeff,

I took a closer look and it seems that more of mintlib needs an overhaul 
with this. There's a bunch of stdio/ code that needs adjustment for wide 
character support, so just adding these functions probably isn't enough 
to support what we're looking for.

In the latest glibc's we have stdio-common/ and libio/ which need to be 
merged with the existing stdio/ directory in the mintlib, given that 
mintlib is based off of glibc in this area. I'd even go as far as 
replicating the directory structure and then it should be easy enough to 
pull in the other locale/ and wcsmbs/ and wctype/ directories to get 
wide char and full unicode support, obviously including additional 
include file adjustments.

This isn't a small task though, but glibc does have unit tests for this 
stuff. So as a first hit, it'd be worth dragging those tests over and 
just running them to see where we're at.

Is this something you can tackle Jeff ?

Thanks,

Alan.