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Re: backslash whitespace newline
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: echristo at apple dot com (Eric Christopher)
- Cc: shebs at apple dot com (Stan Shebs), Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM (Joe Buck), howard dot hinnant at gmail dot com (Howard Hinnant), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, dewar at adacore dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:47:06 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: backslash whitespace newline
>
> >
> > Don't you think it is reasonable to fix horrible coding
> > errors like this, you are just asking for maintenance
> > problems. In the short term, kludging may make sense,
> > in the long term it sounds a bad idea to keep such
> > non-portable code around.
>
> The problem is that it's portable to every other compiler we've
> tested. I am curious what icc and xlc do, but those are the only
> two not tested.
I already tested ICC and it does exactly what EDG does because well
it just uses the EDG front-end. Now one could agrue that ICC has
a bug in their GCC compatibility code as they mention they are
source compatible with GCC.
-- Pinski