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

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. As you also mentioned, we also
use it for cross compilers where the native multibyte functions are of no use.

Dave
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