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Re: What is really a new line in most compilers

On Oct 26, 2005, at 5:17 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:



Just a nit: 5 years ago that was true. Now \n is "native"


Was that part of the OS/X migration, or otherwise? Just curious.

<nod> Part of the migration. OS X /is/ unix. Ok, I'm sure that's an inaccurate statement and I trust the more experienced Apple guys here will gently correct me. But it really is... ;-)

but most Mac software is pretty tolerant of newline representation
due to its history.


Of course, that only makes it *more* of a mess, and *less* likely that
gcc is going to please everyone :-P

Yeah, I figured I should've defined "tolerant" a little better. :-)

-Howard

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