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Re: backslash-newline, trigraphs, and the C standard
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: backslash-newline, trigraphs, and the C standard
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:59:23 -0800
- Cc: zack at wolery dot cumb dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <20000111225102.A20712@wolery.cumb.org><858.947735163@upchuck>
>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
Jeffrey> In message <20000111225102.A20712@wolery.cumb.org>you
Jeffrey> write:
>> So - I'd like to change it so that, in nonconforming mode,
>> \-newline is replaced by (virtual) white space except inside
>> strings.
Jeffrey> I can live with it so long as we can still get conforming
Jeffrey> code via some switch.
FWIW, I'm not in favor of this idea. This is a change that can result
in silent changes in program behavior. Extensions are one thing;
silent changes are another.
There are certainly compilers that compile faster, generate better
code than GCC, and are ANSI/ISO conforming so there must be other
places to look to speed up the compiler.
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Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
CodeSourcery, LLC http://www.codesourcery.com