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Re: Patch to use more safe-ctype macros

DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:

> At the moment, libiberty simply won't build on non-ASCII systems.  The
> safe-ctype stuff was added to guarantee that they reflect the C locale
> rather than the user's locale, as is appropriate for handling source
> code.

Actually, GCC should probably assume that the source code _is_ written
in the user's locale, at least by default, but that's a project for
another day...

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
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