Re: ASCII-isms in od.c, printf.c, tr.c

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> 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  <address@hidden>
>
>       * 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?