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Re: backslash-newline, trigraphs, and the C standard
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at wolery dot cumb dot org>
- Subject: Re: backslash-newline, trigraphs, and the C standard
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:46:03 -0700
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <20000111225102.A20712@wolery.cumb.org>you write:
> So - I'd like to change it so that, in nonconforming mode, \-newline
> is replaced by (virtual) white space except inside strings. Then the
> presence or absence of trigraphs cannot change the boundaries of
> comments, and trigraph warnings can be suppressed inside comments.
> Also, read_and_prescan can be replaced by something that doesn't
> process entire files at once and has much less work to do. (We'd keep
> a copy around for conforming mode.)
I can live with it so long as we can still get conforming code via some
switch.
jeff