when porting my Visual C++ project to GCC, I found out that the wchar_t datatype is 4-byte UTF-32 by default. I could override that with a compiler option, but then the whole wcs* (wcslen, wcscmp, etc.) part of RTL is rendered unusable, since it assumes 4-byte wide strings.
For now, I’ve reimplemented 5-6 of these functions from scratch and #defined my implementations in. But is there a more elegant option – say, a build of GCC RTL with 2-byte wchar-t quietly sitting somewhere, waiting to be linked?
The specific flavors of GCC I’m after are Xcode on Mac OS X, Cygwin, and the one that comes with Debian Linux Etch.
Reimplemented 5-6 of more common wcs* functions, #defined my implementations in.