Problems with GCC and/or VAX LINK

[Henry Spencer]

In article <399 at helios.prosys.se> ath at prosys.se writes:
>...that the contents of a comment is examined to identify multibyte
>...characters only in order to recognize '*/' as multibyte characters
>
>This seems to imply that there is a standard multibyte character set,
>recognized by conforming compilers. Is there?

No.  However, ANSI C provides for the possibility that a specific compiler
might implement such a thing.  The standard imposes a few minor constraints
on it (notably, a '\0' cannot appear within a multibyte character), but
does not dictate precisely how it works.
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