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Re: Ebcdic rule
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Eric Siegerman |
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Re: Ebcdic rule |
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Wed, 3 Oct 2001 14:13:23 -0400 |
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:49:31PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Yes, but Autoconf-based tools that run on EBCDIC mainframes (e.g. GNU
> make) don't seem to need special Autoconf support. EBCDICness is
> easily checked at compile-time already, so I don't offhand see why
> this is an Autoconf issue.
1. Autoconf seems philosophically the Right Place for it, since
it's where all the rest of that work is being done.
2. More practically, doing it once, right, in Autoconf means that
everyone else doesn't have to reinvent the wheel (perhaps
incorrectly). (Suppose that for some reason we can't imagine,
the 'A'==0xXY test turns out to be insufficient; it'll only
have to get fixed once.)
Your C-based approach looks the right way to implement the test,
given concerns about echo portability, but that test could live
as easily in an Autoconf macro as in the application(s).
Purely theoretical for me -- I don't expect to ever use an IBM
mainframe again -- but it seems to be of practical import to some
folks.
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|-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. address@hidden
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- Re: Ebcdic rule, Paul Eggert, 2001/10/04
- Re: Ebcdic rule, Mike Castle, 2001/10/04
- Re: Autoconf, DOS and NT (was Ebcdic rule), Paul Eggert, 2001/10/04
- Re: Autoconf, DOS and NT (was Ebcdic rule), Mike Castle, 2001/10/04
- Re: Autoconf, DOS and NT (was Ebcdic rule), Paul Eggert, 2001/10/04
- Re: Autoconf, DOS and NT (was Ebcdic rule), Earnie Boyd, 2001/10/04
- Re: Autoconf, DOS and NT (was Ebcdic rule), Paul Eggert, 2001/10/04