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According to Riku Voipio on 9/26/2007 3:56 PM:
> After some intensive hair pulling on why libidn breaks arm eabi port,
> turns out libidn did not like gnulib telling it that stdint.h is not
> C99 compatible... Any why not?
>   
>       int check_WCHAR:
>       WCHAR_MIN == TYPE_MINIMUM (wchar_t)
>       && WCHAR_MAX == TYPE_MAXIMUM (wchar_t)
>       ? 1 : -1;
>   /* Detect bug in mingw.  */
> 
> Which makes sense, but turns out TYPE_MAXIMUM seem uncipherable:
> 
> #define TYPE_MINIMUM(t) \
>   ((t) ((t) 0 < (t) -1 ? (t) 0 : ~ (t) 0 << (sizeof (t) * CHAR_BIT - 1)))
> #define TYPE_MAXIMUM(t) \
>   ((t) ((t) 0 < (t) -1 ? (t) -1 : ~ (~ (t) 0 << (sizeof (t) * CHAR_BIT - 1))))
> 
> Neither of these macros seem to work expected if (t) is wchar_t and wchar_t 
> is defined
> as unsigned int. Which happens to be the case on arm-linux-gnueabi...

The test in gnulib is correct.  wchar_t is unsigned int on cygwin as well,
and the gnulib test works just fine there, so I suspect the bug is in your
system headers, and not in gnulib.  What are the values of WCHAR_MIN and
WCHAR_MAX?  How many bits is unsigned int on arm-linux-gnueabi?

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Eric Blake             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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