Re: [libcpp] [PATCH] Handle DOS EOF character for DJGPP

[DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>]

>    (If as reported this is causing bootstrap failure due to the
>    generator programs producing files with trailing ^Z, fix that in
>    the generators.)

I think we can safely rule this out.  All the MS-based gcc platforms
do not (or at least should not) add ^Z to text files, so no generator
should produce such files.

Andris's case was tickled by a text editor, not a generator.

> files originally created on MS-DOS and bearing a
> correctly-positioned ^Z,

Just FYI, "correctly-positioned" is an invalid assumption.  There is
*no* rule that the ^Z can only appear at EOF; in fact in the original
CP/M it almost always showed up elsewhere, as file sizes were always
rounded up to sector sizes, and the ^Z was usually in the middle of
the sector.

But any software *today* that does that should be taken out back and
shot.