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Re: xstrtol: fix test failure on mingw


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: xstrtol: fix test failure on mingw
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:55:49 +0200
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Hi Jim,

> > ! LC_ALL=C tr -d '\r' < t-xstrtoimax.tmp > t-xstrtoimax.xo
> I hear that there really do exist systems in actual use
> on which tr still does not honor backslash-escapes like \r and \n.

Which platforms, please? (I use the similar idiom in more than 200 files in
gettext. So I need to know the reasons.)

> So you might want to change that \r to \015, in spite of the
> ASCII dependency.

A few programs, like groff and IBM's ICU, are ported to platforms not based on
ASCII. On the other hand, files compiled by gperf have a compile-time check
for ASCII, and I've received no reports from systems where that failed.

Bruno





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