Re: backslash whitespace newline

[Bernd Jendrissek <berndj at prism dot co dot za>]

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On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 03:43:15PM -0700, Eric Christopher wrote:
> >Don't you think it is reasonable to fix horrible coding errors like
> >this, you are just asking for maintenance problems. In the short
> >term, kludging may make sense, in the long term it sounds a bad idea
> >to keep such non-portable code around.
> 
> The problem is that it's portable to every other compiler we've
> tested. I am curious what icc and xlc do, but those are the only two
> not tested.

s/portable/happens to work/g?

I can understand that, all other things being equal, we (FSFians and the
Appleanians) would rather have that one more big codebase building with
GCC than not.  All other things are *not* equal, alas; it would be a
change we make *at the expense of* some other set of interests.

Maybe GCC needs -fi-know-my-code-is-broken-but-i-and-wont-fix-it=0x29481
that sets a bitmap of alternate behaviours to pander to what "all other
compilers" (or rather, some subset of that) happen to do right now.

Can we break the impasse by having the behaviour under control of the
command line, and issuing a warning whenever a backslash appears at the
end of a C++-style comment - a risky construct in general?
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