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Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8
- To: raeburn at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 20:04:50 -0500
- CC: martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, eggert at twinsun dot com, brolley at cygnus dot com, gcc2 at gnu dot org, egcs at cygnus dot com
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