From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24975 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2003 19:56:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 24968 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2003 19:56:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO igw2.watson.ibm.com) (129.34.20.6) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 24 Feb 2003 19:56:37 -0000 Received: from sp1n293en1.watson.ibm.com (sp1n293en1.watson.ibm.com [9.2.112.57]) by igw2.watson.ibm.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h1OJu3j12928; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:56:03 -0500 Received: from makai.watson.ibm.com (makai.watson.ibm.com [9.2.216.144]) by sp1n293en1.watson.ibm.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h1OJu3V47866; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:56:03 -0500 Received: from watson.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by makai.watson.ibm.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3/09-18-2002) with ESMTP id OAA29392; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:56:03 -0500 Message-Id: <200302241956.OAA29392@makai.watson.ibm.com> To: Zack Weinberg cc: Gabriel Dos Reis , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Target deprecation, round three In-Reply-To: Message from Zack Weinberg of "Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:56:57 PST." <87of518q2u.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:02:00 -0000 From: David Edelsohn X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg01625.txt.bz2 >>>>> 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