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Re: backslash whitespace newline

From: Howard Hinnant <howard dot hinnant at gmail dot com>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:13:36 -0400
Subject: Re: backslash whitespace newline
References: <200510252344.j9PNiY7e026284@earth.phy.uc.edu>

On Oct 25, 2005, at 7:44 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:

But this is not an extension at all. This is an implementation defined behavior which is different than what an extension would do.
People depending on this is not the correct thing do any ways as
there could be another compiler besides which GCC which does this.

<nod> I'm not disagreeing with anything you're saying. My only point is that it might be in gcc's best interest to have the same implementation defined behavior as MS, EDG-based compilers and CodeWarrior when that is a reasonable choice (and probably others, I know my list of compilers is incomplete).

-Howard

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