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Re: Preprocessor Problem?

To: linguist-gcc at rich-paul dot net
Subject: Re: Preprocessor Problem?
From: Neil Booth <NeilB at earthling dot net>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 13:48:42 +0900
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <20000527160045.E10272@wolery.cumb.org> <Pine.LNX.4.20.0005271952060.17030-100000@monster.master-link.org>

linguist-gcc@rich-paul.net wrote:- > Thank you both ... these files were indeed dragged from a dos machine, with > their damn line endings intact. > > I'm also pleased to know that the new version ignores this ... I've always > thought that the best way to handle CR's in a text file was to ignore them > intirely ... this would tend to be the 'right thing' in most cases ... like > shell scripts and programs, and eliminate one source of DOS annoyance. Even better, soon (not quite in the snapshots yet) the preprocessor will warn if it encounters a backslash separated by whitespace from any of the 4 newline possibilities. Neil.

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