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Re: Warning for trigraphs in comment?
Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com> writes:
>>>>>> "Gabriel" == Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> writes:
> >> The patch is not appropriate for 3.3.
> >> The real fix is to remove trigraphs from the standard.
>
> Gabriel> Oh, I'm all for removing trigraphs, digraphs, quadrigraphs
> Gabriel> and whatevergraphs -- I've also thought they were mistakes.
> Gabriel> But, in fact, I'm skeptical that would ever happen.
>
> I like the notion too. Trigraphs are an utter misfeature.
>
> Would it make sense to have the lexer ignore trigraphs (i.e., just
> treat ??/ as three characters) unless specifically enabled with
> -fenable-trigraphs? In the unlikely case that anyone actually uses
> trigraphs, this would enable them to continue doing so.
GCC has done this for decades. See the documentation of the
-trigraphs option.
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