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

To: martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de
Subject: Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8
From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 08:22:57 -0500
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> <199812281350.OAA00399@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Reply-to: rms at gnu dot org

    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.

It would be much better to mangle the names.

References:
- Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8
  - From: Richard Stallman
- Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8
  - From: Martin von Loewis

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