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Re: error: "no newline at end of file"
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Michael Meissner wrote:
> translation (5.1.1.2 in the C99 standard, should be close in the C90
> standard). In particular, in paragraph 3, it says:
>
> A source file shall not end in a partial preprocessing token or a
> partial comment...
>
> If there is no trailing (logical) newline, then the file would end in a partial
> preprocessing token.
As has been extensively discussed without resolution, the reference to a
"partial preprocessing token" in the standard is defective: there is no
such thing because of the rule that a preprocessing token is always the
maximum sequence of characters forming a valid preprocessing token.
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Joseph S. Myers
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