Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are patches for a few places where the coreutils source code > assumes ASCII, and will do the wrong thing on an EBCDIC host. It's > now safe to use \a since we're assuming C89 or better these days. > > There's another place in echo.c but I'll send a bigger patch about > that shortly. > > 2004-05-12 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * src/od.c (print_ascii, dump_strings): Use e.g. '\a' rather than > '\007', for portability to EBCDIC hosts. > * src/printf.c (print_esc_char): Likewise. > * src/tr.c (unquote, make_printable_str): Likewise.
Thanks. I've applied that. Do you know of anyone who builds GNU tools on EBCDIC hosts these days? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
