Re: [patch v2] x86, efi: fix pointer math issue in handle_ramdisks()

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/06/2012 12:44 AM, walter harms wrote:
>>
> hi,
> 
> yep, but i was asking about efi. The basic idea is of cause to map efi_char16_t -> wchar_t
> and back and make this a prototype for every driver that needs a special charset.
> That would make it possible to recycle the wcs* interface of libc.
> IMHO it seems more reasonable than adding one for each (upcoming) type.
> 

Actually libc and the C standard is going the opposite ways, adding new
interfaces for UTF-16 and UTF-32.  The wchar_t interface just doesn't
work very well.

	-hpa

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