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Re: Default target wide character set

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 19:55:52, Tom Tromey wrote:
> What I would propose doing is adding a new charset named "UCS". ?If this
> is selected as the target wide charset, then we would automatically pick
> UCS-2 or UCS-4 depending on sizeof(target wchar_t). ?This would probably
> mean having a few special cases in the code (like we do for the -BE and
> -LE variants). ?We would then make this the default target wide charset.
> 
> What do you think of that?

Something like that would also be useful for Windows targets, and would
address PR9996:

 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9996

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Pedro Alves
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