On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 17:27:56 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Was: sunmscapi.dll cannot compile with Visual C++ > > `-Zc:wchar_t-` has, until now, been passed to switch off wchar_t as a > distinct C++ type when compiling with Visual C++ so jchar and wchar_t are > typedef'd to shorts on Windows. After some examination it appears this flag > is not actually needed for almost every source file that we have, barring > security.cpp, so we could try to remove it and make Windows code behave more > like regular C++, since casting between wchar_t and jchar does not appear to > happen very often (only appearing in one file!). wchar_t in Standard C is a > typedef and is never affected by this flag, and if `-Zc:wchar_t` is enabled > for C code, it is simply ignored This pull request has been closed without being integrated. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12907
