Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] curses: build with -std=gnu99

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> Before we uglify our code to work around (egregious!) defects in certain
> compilers, we should find out whether and where exactly these defects
> exist, and whether it's worth targeting the defective compilers.

Using iconv is on the table _anyway_, to properly support
"-display curses,charset=$something", so using that for the cp437 table
too actually simplifies things and avoids hard-coding tables using
\uxxxx as side effect.

cheers,
  Gerd