Question about wide-char string literals

[Stefan Dösinger]

> Am 13.11.2020 um 03:45 schrieb Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com>:
> 
> However, if MinGW is not installed, Wine's build system will compile
> that same source code with L-strings as an SO module and it works
> thanks to the -fshort-wchar compiler flag. So what's stopping us from
> using -fshort-wchar and L-strings everywhere?

A non-mingw compiled PE module will only call other Wine libraries and only use Wine headers, so -fshort-wchar is an option. A not-yet-split module like msvcrt.dll.so will include system headers and call unix libraries so we can't safely use -fshort-wchar.

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