[Info-vax] ODS-5 specifications, was: Re: Does OpenVMS Use Unicode?

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Wed Jun 15 09:32:24 EDT 2016


On 2016-06-15 15:26, hb wrote:
> On 06/15/2016 02:38 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> the linker will need changes if you allow UTF-8 symbols,
>
> Yes and no. The linker takes a symbol as is and it simply matches them
> as is to resolve undefined symbols. IF you want a map with the symbol
> names printed in a readable fashion, then the linker has to change.

And with "readable fashion" here meaning you get pretty columns. The 
names will be printed correctly either way. But columns might end up 
misaligned.

	Johnny




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