Re: [PATCH] IBM z/OS + EBCDIC support

[Paul Eggert]

Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> It's certainly not the default, but given the sort of history and
> longevity that surround many mainframe installations, I wouldn't
> be surprised if some folks do.

Given all the problems mentioned (including some in the proposed patches), let's 
give up on trying to support any such folks.  If they want to build gnulib-using 
software on z/OS, they'll have to build with the default configuration in which 
char is unsigned.  It wouldn't be practical for us to try to support char being 
signed when standard chars have the top bit set.  With that in mind I installed 
the attached further patch, which simplifies the recent changes to c-ctype quite 
a bit.

0001-c-ctype-do-not-worry-about-EBCDIC-char-signed.patch
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