[Bug binutils/31283] windmc (s390x) fails with: parser: syntax error

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31283

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The master branch has been updated by Alan Modra <amodra@sourceware.org>:

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commit 3f8f9745c75b333515f399fc2908ede2ed8014e9
Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 24 12:25:23 2024 +0000

    PR 31283 windmc: Parse input correctly on big endian hosts

    On big endian hosts (eg. s390x) the windmc tool fails to parse even
    trivial files:

      $ cat test.mc
      ;
      $ ./binutils/windmc ./test.mc
      In test.mc at line 1: parser: syntax error.
      In test.mc at line 1: fatal: syntax error.

    The tool starts by reading the input as Windows CP1252 and then
    converting it internally into an array of UTF-16LE, which it then
    processes as an array of unsigned short (typedef unichar).

    There are lots of ways this is wrong, but in the specific case of big
    endian machines the little endian pairs of bytes are byte-swapped.

    For example, the ';' character in the input above is first converted
    to UTF16-LE byte sequence { 0x3b, 0x00 }, which is then cast to
    unsigned short.  On a big endian machine the first unichar appears to
    be 0x3b00.  The lexer is unable to recognize this as the comment
    character ((unichar)';') and so parsing fails.

    The simple fix is to convert the input to UTF-16BE on big endian
    machines (and do the reverse conversion when writing the output).

    Fixes: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31283
    Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>

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