Target deprecation, round three

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Mon Feb 24 20:02:00 GMT 2003


>>>>> Zack Weinberg writes:

>> I hope we won't see so much rigid position in the future regarding
>> target deperacation.  Why is it so urgent to deprecate that target
>> -now-? 

Zack> HOST_EBCDIC presents a severe hindrance to implementing multi-charset
Zack> support in a C99 compliant manner.

	[This motivation should have been disclosed at the beginning of
the discussion.]

	Is it possible to implement the multi-charset support and say that
HOST_EBCDIC will not be C99 compliant?

Thanks, David



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