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Re: backslash whitespace newline

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
Cc: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>, Howard Hinnant <howard dot hinnant at gmail dot com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:04:12 -0700
Subject: Re: backslash whitespace newline
References: <200510252222.j9PMMMiU024597@earth.phy.uc.edu> <2550265.1130307391295.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@imap-dhs.suse.de> <20051026162823.GN18194@synopsys.com> <200510261838.00641.stevenb@suse.de> <435FB5CC.7090808@adacore.com>

On Oct 26, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Robert Dewar wrote:

No, conflicting "de facto" behaviors (certainly not standards), that
cannot all be resolved. In this case, we have to worry about past
gcc behavior and behavior of foreign compilers.

Yes. I've asked, how many lines exist that rely upon this, the answer was zero. We can have someone that has ready access to sourceforge or the google cache to count there (Hi Matt), to improve the answer, but my guess is that it would remain fairly low.

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