[haiku-development] Re: Aw: Re: Source-level incompatibility in iconv.h

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:45:05 +0100 CET

Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> These tests have been done on R5, using a libiconv header that 
> declares iconv() 
> like this:
> size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, const char* * inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, 
> char* * 
> outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
> 
> So, unless I miss something, my original idea of changing haiku's 
> iconv() 
> declaration is a bad one - as it could trigger problems for other 
> programs, at 
> least in C++ mode.

Marcus obviously meant the other way around, but that doesn't help with 
POSIX conforming apps.

Bye,
   Axel.


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