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Re: ebcdic support for binutils...
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:30:33PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> esp5@rama.comp.pge.com writes:
>
> > hm. That's better? What happens when you get 50 different charsets?
>
> Since that will never happen, the question is pointless. We've had
> two character sets used in programming languages for 30 years, and one
> of them is almost never used and only exists today for reasons of
> backward compatibility. It's hard to imagine introducing even a third
> character set, much less fifty.
>
I guess my question was a general one. What happens when you have fifty
separate cases - in general? Say for checking threading models? Or for checking
the OS? I think elif would be extremely helpful here...
Ed