Re: removing stdint's dependency on wchar

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> This suggests that we should use the name "stdint" for the
> common case, and some other name for the rare case of
> applications that need WINT_MIN etc.  It'd be easy to
> create a module "stdint-with-wchar" to do that

I disagree that "common" vs. "rare" should be guiding criterion here.

It's more important that a user gets a fully correct and fully POSIX
compliant <stdint.h> when he asks for the module name that most immediately
comes to mind, namely 'stdint'. Looking for a module with fewer dependencies
is optimization. It's OK that for optimizating you need to investigate a
little more the available set of modules, until you find 'stdint-sans-wchar'.

We use this approach already for the modules 'strstr' and 'strstr-simple'.

Bruno
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