Re: 16bit ctype table

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:25:28PM +0900, Takehiko NOZAKI wrote:
> hi,
> 
> > Well, advantage of keeping them as is would be to minimize the
> > translation for the old ctype table.
> 
> no, no. we don't use old ctype table anymore.
> LC_CTYPE database doesn't contain old ctype table info.

I think we are talking about different things. I am refering to the
original _ctype_ table used by any code compiled against the old
ctype.h. In the patch I posted, only additional translation is fixing up
_CTYPE_X and _CTYPE_B. The former can like be dropped without problems
as any user I am aware of used _CTYPE_X | _CTYPE_N together anyway.

> > that code using the old interface breaks when re-compiled.
> 
> that is why i scheduled this fix for libc major bump.

Even then it would trade a compile time error for (at best) a link time
error.

Joerg