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Re: resolving backslash newline whisky tango foxtrot: a proposal

From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:46:42 -0700
Subject: Re: resolving backslash newline whisky tango foxtrot: a proposal
References: <20051027182220.GU18194@synopsys.com> <200510271835.j9RIZc9t013023@earth.phy.uc.edu> <20051027205302.GV18194@synopsys.com>

Joe Buck wrote:

> So the amended suggestion is to fix -Wcomment to shut up about continued
> comments that don't matter, and also to add the new -f option to switch
> the handling of spaces-at-the-end.

I think your proposal, as amended, is the right approach.

I generally don't much like new command-line options, but I agree that
this is a situation in which both sides have valid points, there's
legacy code around that depends on both behaviors, and having a switch
makes sense.

-- 
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
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(916) 791-8304

References:
- resolving backslash newline whisky tango foxtrot: a proposal
  - From: Joe Buck
- Re: resolving backslash newline whisky tango foxtrot: a proposal
  - From: Andrew Pinski
- Re: resolving backslash newline whisky tango foxtrot: a proposal
  - From: Joe Buck

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