bumming cycles out of parse_identifier()...

[Neil Booth]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:-

> For C++ there's also the requirement to convert source characters not in
> the basic source character set to UCNs (a model that was present in some
> C9X drafts, but changed before the release of C99 - I'm not sure why,
> though I think non-intuitive results from e.g. stringising "$" came into
> it).

Yuk.  I really think all this is way overboard.

> For C will this (when proper multibyte support including wide strings, as
> described in cpplib.html#charset, is present) follow the model of N951 for
> fixing the defects of C99 in relation to string literals and
> concatenation?

I have no idea, but I'm happy to have you fix it to do so :-)

Neil.