AW: [Zlib-devel] CE Port

[Alexander Mai]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Cosmin Truta [mailto:cosmin at cs.toronto.edu]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Juni 2003 21:09
> An: Alexander Mai
> Cc: Zlib-devel at zlib.net
> Betreff: Re: [Zlib-devel] CE Port
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I looked a little more at the Windows CE port, and I would 
> like to bring
> in some objections and suggestions.

You are talking about the existing, full CE port on that
given URL, right?!
My recent proposal is not to use it, but to incorporate
the set of patches being provided by me. (a first set was 
already sent to this list, more to come when I have a bit more
time...)
 
> As I see, Windows CE doesn't support a minimum of decent portability.
> ***What's good in using C, if it isn't possible to use the standard C
> library properly?***

A somehow funny statement. What would you use on a system where
only a non-ANSI C implementation exists??

[...]
I skip some details here.

> - If there is no sprintf() or snprintf(), there should be 
> wsprintf() on
>   Windows CE. (Is this correct?)

The "C API" exists for char and the unicode versions (at least
as far as available at all...).
The system API however is pure UNICODE.

> I am sorry I can only come with advices, but I don't have access to
> a Windows CE machine or compiler, so I cannot do the changes myself.
> 
> Accepting the Windows CE port in its current state is a bad idea, in
> my opinion. I can be (and it should be) significantly improved.
> 

I agree (see above).

Alexander Mai