Re: Update on port to OS400/EBCDIC

Mark Phippard wrote:
[...]
> added a compiler option for the C compiler to essentially "pretend" it is
> living in a UTF-8 world. Character literals are compiled as UTF-8 and [...]

Yay! That will make things much easier for you. (Of course, it probably has
bugs!)

Thanks for the summary of the situation.

> We hope the changes needed to support the OS/400 V5R4 port are
> small/straightforward enough that they can be applied to trunk. Obviously
> the final judgement rests with the Subversion community, but the scope of
> our changes are on par with those required for Windows.

In principle, as long as there are people around to maintain it, I would be
happy to have your system-specific code of that extent in the trunk.

> PS - We will still need to maintain the existing EBCDIC branch
> indefinitely so that we can continue to provide support to users on older
> versions of OS/400 (which tend to last for years and years).

OK.

- Julian

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Received on Wed Feb 8 23:58:42 2006