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Re: backslash whitespace newline
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: mrs at apple dot com (Mike Stump)
- Cc: howard dot hinnant at gmail dot com (Howard Hinnant), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM (Joe Buck)
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:50:22 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: backslash whitespace newline
>
> On Oct 25, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Joe Buck wrote:
> > I personally like the fact that gcc's behavior does not depend on
> > invisible characters
>
> All other things being equal, this is a nice design goal. I like it
> too. Should we break peoples otherwise portable code to have an
> implementation defined behavior that no one else has?
but it is not portable code. That is my point. Instead of all
this discussion, I went and found all the times this behavior
was mentioned and found it was mentioned each year since it
was added. I was only mentioned twice last year.
Here are the links to the previous discussion for other people's
benifit:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-11/msg00105.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-03/msg01685.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2000-10/msg00117.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-05/msg01032.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-03/msg00130.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-10/msg00012.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-02/msg01181.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-04/msg00543.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-08/msg01118.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-11/msg00267.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-04/msg00603.html
-- Pinski