Re: [Tinycc-devel] uint8_t, unsigned char, and char for BufferedFile (and others)

[Peter \"Firefly\" Lund]

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:

> The C99 standard allows but does not mandate multibyte source
> characters.(Section 5.2.1.2 Multibyte characters). It also allows a
> multibyte execution character set whose encoding might be different than
> the source character set.
>
> Required are the 26 uppercase and lowercase Latin letters, the 10
> decimal digits, 29 punctuation and graphic symbols, plus space,
> horizontal & vertical tab and form feed, all of which are in the 7-bit
> ASCII set. (@ $ ` <DEL> are not required).

Precisely.  If we wanted to support multibyte source characters in the
input we would probably have to change the lexer anyway.

-Peter

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