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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: stevenb at suse dot de (Steven Bosscher), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM (Joe Buck), howard dot hinnant at gmail dot com (Howard Hinnant), dewar at adacore dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:16:46 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: backslash whitespace newline
>
> 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.
How many lines depend on this the other way?
The answer none.
-- Pinski