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Re: questions about new multibyte character support in EGCS/GCC2

   Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 12:24:21 -0500
   From: Dave Brolley <brolley@cygnus.com>

   Paul Eggert wrote:

   > GCC should use local_mblen etc. only on translation hosts that don't
   > have proper multibyte functions.

   local_mblen etc. are also required on systems that may have proper multibyte
   functions but no support for S-JIS, JIS and EUCJP.

Yes.  It may be best to have an installer's switch to specify whether
local_mblen is desired.  It's a tradeoff between functionality
(typically for cross-compilers, it sounds like) and efficiency.
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