Re: Question about wide-char string literals

[Stefan Dösinger]

> Am 13.11.2020 um 10:35 schrieb Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24(a)gmail.com>:
> Wouldn't that only be a problem if the module tried to call a wcs
> function like wcslen, which we can't do right now anyway because wcs
> functions expect an array of 4-byte characters and all the wide-char
> functions in the Win32 API use 2-byte characters? Most system
> functions don't use wchar_t at all and thus can be safely called no
> matter how it's defined.

Possibly, but it seems fragile and too high a cost to get L"" literals.

You don't know what -fshort-wchar will do to the headers and inline functions in there. And having Wine's WCHAR and host wchar_t separate is a nice way to get compiler warnings if we accidentally mix them.