> From: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 02 Oct 2001 15:27:06 -0700 > > There's at least an active community of people who ported Perl to EBCDIC > and continue to maintain it, apparently because they're using it > regularly.
Yes, but Autoconf-based tools that run on EBCDIC mainframes (e.g. GNU make) don't seem to need special Autoconf support. EBCDICness is easily checked at compile-time already, so I don't offhand see why this is an Autoconf issue. I asked him whether he actually used mainframes mainly because his message sounded like it was prompted by theoretical issues, not by a problem that he'd actually run into in practice.
