Module Name: src
Committed By: christos
Date: Sun Feb 14 14:47:48 UTC 2016
Modified Files:
src/lib/libedit: chartype.c chartype.h read.c
Log Message:
>From Ingo Schwartze:
Next step: Remove #ifdef'ing in read_char(), in the same style
as we did for setlocale(3) in el.c.
A few remarks are required to explain the choices made.
* On first sight, handling mbrtowc(3) seems a bit less trivial
than handling setlocale(3) because its prototype uses the data
type mbstate_t from <wchar.h>. However, it turns out that
"histedit.h" already includes <wchar.h> unconditionally (i don't
like headers including other headers, but that ship has sailed,
people are by now certainly used to the fact that including
"histedit.h" doesn't require including <wchar.h> before), and
"histedit.h" is of course included all over the place. So from
that perspective, there is no problem with using mbrtowc(3)
unconditionally ever for !WIDECHAR.
* However, <wchar.h> also defines the mbrtowc(3) prototype,
so we cannot just #define mbrtowc away, or including the header
will break. It would also be a bad idea to porovide a local
implementation of mbrtowc() and hope that it overrides the one
in libc. Besides, the required prototype is subtly different:
While mbrtowc(3) takes "wchar_t *" as its first argument, we
need a function that takes "Char *". So unfortunately, we have
to keep a ct_mbrtowc #define, at least until we can maybe get
rid of "Char *" in the more remote future.
* After getting rid of the #else clause in read_char(), we can
pull "return 1;" into the default: clause. After that, we can
get rid of the ugly "goto again_lastbyte;" and just "break;".
As a bonus, that also gets rid of the ugly CONSTCOND.
* While here, delete the unused ct_mbtowc() from chartype.h.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.13 -r1.14 src/lib/libedit/chartype.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.17 -r1.18 src/lib/libedit/chartype.h
cvs rdiff -u -r1.76 -r1.77 src/lib/libedit/read.c
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
