Re: Reply to Mr Verdoolaege about wide chars

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:56:09AM +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:18:55AM +0200, philippe blain wrote:
> > > A function CANNOT return a structure,
> >
> > Says who ?
> >
> K&R apparently.
> Does anyone have the ansi standard at hand ?
> I'm pretty sure it is allowed in ansi C.

likewise (I'm certain that it's allowed, though it's of course not
necessarily efficient).

> You might want to post a patch. Since Thomas hasn't reacted
> to this issue (at least not publicly), he may very well accept it.

maybe/maybe not - it would be nice to make things simpler, but I don't
see a good way to do that in the slice we're discussing.

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