ebcdic support for binutils...

[esp5@rama.comp.pge.com]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:30:33PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> esp5@rama.comp.pge.com writes:
> 
> > hm. That's better? What happens when you get 50 different charsets? 
> 
> Since that will never happen, the question is pointless.  We've had
> two character sets used in programming languages for 30 years, and one
> of them is almost never used and only exists today for reasons of
> backward compatibility.  It's hard to imagine introducing even a third
> character set, much less fifty.
> 
I guess my question was a general one. What happens when you have fifty 
separate cases - in general? Say for checking threading models? Or for checking
the OS? I think elif would be extremely helpful here...

Ed