* Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> wrote:
> > Also, would it make sense to rename it to something more descriptive like
> > "apple_unicode_str[]" or so?
> >
> > Plus an unicode string literal initializer would be pretty descriptive as
> > well,
> > instead of the weird looking character array, i.e. something like:
> >
> > static efi_char16_t const apple_unicode_str[] = u"Apple";
> >
> > ... or so?
> >
>
> is u"xxx" the same as L"xxx"?
So "L" literals map to wchar_t, which wide character type is implementation
specific IIRC, could be 16-bit or 32-bit wide.
u"" literals OTOH are specified by the C11 spec to be char16_t, i.e. 16-bit
wide
characters - which I assume is the EFI type as well?
> In any case, this is for historical reasons: at some point (and I
> don't remember the exact details) we had a conflict at link time with
> objects using 4 byte wchar_t, so we started using this notation to be
> independent of the size of wchar_t. That issue no longer exists so we
> should be able to get rid of this.
Yes, my guess is that those problems were due to L"xyz" mapping to wchar_t and
having a different type in the kernel build and the host build side - but
u"xyz"
should solve that.
Thanks,
Ingo
