From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Fri May 23 11:38:13 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h4N9cDWI039350 for sc22wg5-domo; Fri, 23 May 2003 11:38:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from inf.rl.ac.uk (nfs7.inf.rl.ac.uk [130.246.72.7]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h4N9c7Ec039344 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 11:38:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk) Received: from numerical.cc.rl.ac.uk (numerical [130.246.8.23]) by inf.rl.ac.uk (8.11.6+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id h4N9bZq01912 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 10:37:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from rl.ac.uk (jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk [130.246.9.202]) by numerical.cc.rl.ac.uk (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23240 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 10:47:47 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3ECDECAA.4010403@rl.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 10:40:58 +0100 From: John Reid Reply-To: j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: WG5 Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2737) New C9x TR that might affect us Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 16:22:44 -0500 To: Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov, sc22wg5@dkuug.dk From: Jon Steidel Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2737) New C9x TR that might affect us Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" J3 decided at one point to ignore the wide character capabilities in C9x as it would potentially involve non-default Fortran character data types. Why not do the same here. Or, at least take the stance that you can't track a moving target, and until the TR is adopted, no action is necessary. -jon At 1:54 PM -0700 5/22/03, Van Snyder wrote: >SC22/WG14 is registering a TR to add more character types to C. This >could eventually affect our section on interoperability. > >The ballot to register the TR isn't even due until after our Dresden >meeting. Should we ignore its possible effect on 007 for now? > >It's at http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/open/n3579.pdf in case you want to >look at it. It's only nine pages. > >-- >Van Snyder | What fraction of Americans believe >Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov | Wrestling is real and NASA is fake? >Any alleged opinions are my own and have not been approved or disapproved >by JPL, CalTech, NASA, Sean O'Keefe, George Bush, the Pope, or anybody else.