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Re: Some more fortran safe-ctype & cleanups
- To: toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl
- Subject: Re: Some more fortran safe-ctype & cleanups
- From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:57:57 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk, zack at codesourcery dot com
> From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
>
> "Kaveh R. Ghazi" wrote:
>
> > > From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
>
> > > Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> > > > '\0' is in is_nvspace because we decided it made the most sense to
> > > > treat it as whitespace. It's a bit risky to add that to the set used
> > > > by Fortran without making sure that this won't break anything else.
>
> > > Kaveh, I'd like to second this. Fortran is rather peculiar in its
> > > interpretation of source text (think: 80-column punch card). Craig
> > > probably arrived at the code as it is after much experimentation (and
> > > complaints ;-) Please only change it to something that has *exactly*
> > > the same semantics ....
>
> > Um, that's what I thought my original patch did. Neil was the one
> > advocating is_nvspace, not me. :-)
>
> Oops - sorry for being so confused about who said what ....
May I thus install it, once we're back in bootstrap land and it passes
regtests?
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