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Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8
- To: rms at gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8
- From: Martin von Loewis <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:50:03 +0100
- CC: zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu, zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu, amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk, gcc2 at gnu dot org, egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <199812240211.VAA23752@blastula.phys.columbia.edu> <199812250809.DAA05090@psilocin.gnu.org>
> GCC works with many assemblers. I doubt that they all support UTF-8,
> and it would be hard even to check them all. So I think we will have
> to mangle non-ASCII byte values somehow in the .s files, whether the
> encoding used is UTF-8 or not.
Alternatively, we could reject code that uses non-ASCII identifiers if
the assembler cannot reasonably represent them. That might mean that
the full feature set is only available on GNU systems. I could live
with that.
Regards,
Martin