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Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8


   From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
   Date: 11 Dec 1998 22:35:51 -0500

   Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com> writes:

   > Several people have mentioned the linker as an issue.  To the best of
   > my knowledge, the linker will permit any byte value except 0 to appear
   > in an identifier.  I don't see why the linker has to change at all for
   > any character set issues.

   Linker scripts processing with odd symbol, section or file names?

You're right, I hadn't considered those.  That can be a problem for
somebody to solve some day.

Ian


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