WTF. glibc has arch-specific asm iconv modules. For EBCDIC. You can't make this stuff up. https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/s390/s390-64/iso-8859-1_cp037_z900.c;h=d020fd01dbbcfe91b2c1f632aaa3e69c1f682825;hb=HEAD …
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Replying to @RichFelker
@RichFelker even better, it's in kernel too http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/s390/include/asm/ebcdic.h …2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes -
Replying to @RikuVoipio
@RikuVoipio@hsivonen@RichFelker That's all on S/390. I'd believe IBM has customers who still need that.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @elwoz
@elwoz@RikuVoipio@hsivonen Yes but if you understand gconv internals it makes no sense to optimize the conversion core...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RichFelker
@elwoz@RikuVoipio@hsivonen ...because all the time is spent in the multiple bloated OO layers before you get to the core.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RichFelker
@RichFelker I admit I've never looked at glibc's iconv impl, but is the bloat forced by the specification, or just clumsy coding?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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