binutils + i18n

[H . J . Lu]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 08:39:42PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Ian Lance Taylor writes:
> 
> > I believe that the assembler should not change the character set it
> > will accept for identifiers based on the current locale.  The
> > assembler implements a particular programming language, one which I
> > believe should not be locale dependent.  Since the assembler does use
> > isalpha(), I guess that it makes the mistake you mention, and it
> > should be rewritten to not use any of the ctype macros.
> 
> A patch that implements that, i.e. to not use ctype macros except
> where explicitly dealing internationalizable strings, is at
> ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/binutils-diffs . Here is the
> ChangeLog.
> 

If noone objects, let's check in and test it as much as we can.


H.J.