Re: [Sdcc-user] Adding support for utf8/asm

[Philipp K. K. <pk...@sp...>]

On 22.01.2015 14:36, re...@re... wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I would like to have some kind of road-map for implementing utf8
> for the assemblers
> 
> If its complicated for all the assemblers at once ,
> i'd love to have an idea on how to do it on only one,
> that intersts me the most is the stm8 .
> 
> I need just a rought road map - i think it s relatively simple to code
> just a matter of time and will (fr: volonté) .
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with the assemblers, so I can't really
give you a roadmap.

* The assemblers (excluding pics) are derived from the asxxxx
assemblers; however they have diverged somewhat over time; still it
might make sense to look into syncing them again. Maybe asxxxx upstream
already implemented some UTF-8 support, or is interested in UTF-8 support
* UTF-8 support is IMO something we really need in the assemblers
* It would be good to also have UTF-16 (used e.g. by USB) and UTF-32.
* Support in the assemblers will make it easier and nicer to get support
into the compiler (u8, u and U string literal prefixes, see section
6.4.5 of the C11 standard).

Philipp