From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Use a proper C tokenizer to implement the obsolete typedefs test.
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:00:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b27ba9aa-c809-ba50-29e8-0d799ec44be1@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1903132209520.10481@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On 3/13/19 6:16 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> I'm seeing failures from build-many-glibcs.py for
> resource/check-obsolete-constructs:
>
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 3198: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> This is with LC_ALL=C (and bits/resource.h headers containing UTF-8 µ in a
> comment). Code opening text files that might not be pure ASCII needs to
> specify an encoding explicitly to avoid depending on the locale tests are
> run with. There is also a case that the encoding specified should be
> ASCII - that installed headers should be required to be pure ASCII so they
> can be included in source files with any ASCII-compatible character set if
> compiling with -finput-charset= (which affects included headers as well as
> the main source file, so compiling "#include <sys/resource.h>" with
> -finput-charset=ascii currently fails).
Do we have a requirement that #incldue <sys/resources.h> be compilable with
-finput-charset=ascii?
Or to put it another way, who decides which sources files have to be ASCII
compatible?
Is the fix to fix bits/resource.h or the python opening of the file with
UTF-8 support?
--
Cheers,
Carlos.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-14 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-11 14:59 [PATCH v4] Use a proper C tokenizer to implement the obsolete typedefs test Zack Weinberg
2019-03-11 18:57 ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-03-12 0:59 ` Zack Weinberg
2019-03-12 3:47 ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-03-13 13:47 ` Zack Weinberg
2019-03-13 22:16 ` Joseph Myers
2019-03-14 13:00 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2019-03-14 13:21 ` Zack Weinberg
2019-03-14 18:06 ` Joseph Myers
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