Martin Sebor wrote:
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
I can definitely see your point. Although it's not the highest priority,
we would certainly consider a patch to effect this behavior.
Out of curiosity, has APR been ported to any architecture where
the size of char is not 8 bits? If so, does the C implementation
on that architecture expose an extended integer type (i.e., one
that's not one of the standard types) that is 8 bits wide?
APR only runs on 8-bit char architectures that I am aware of.
The weird 9 bit chars based upon 36 bit words used by super computer
architectures are increasingly uncommon if not entirely obsolete.
However, there are supposedly some embedded C environments for asian
language devices which shortcut wchar_t handling by doing all of their
char handling as 16-bit. (Doesn't seem like a good idea to me FWIW). I
have no idea what these environments are nor how popular they are. I do
not know what they do for an 8 bit type.
Mike
