The GCC "End of Text Line" Bug

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 01:27:30PM -0800, Polehn, MikeX wrote:
> The GCC "End of Text Line" Bug
> 
> The End of Text Line Bug has been around for a very long time, exists in a
> large number of UNIX like tools (the worst being MAKE, renders the standard
> makefile unuseable most of the time when a standard DOS/Windows based editor
> is used) and is easy to find an example. Since the PC DOS/Window and GCC
> based tools are becoming more integrated (or coexist) though such tools as
> SAMBA. etc, and more development tools and/or text editors exist for the
> DOS/Windows (edit, notepad, MSVC, etc) environment and more people use these
> editors then the UNIX type editors, it makes since that all gcc related
> tools understand end-of-lines correctly no matter which common editor type
> is used to create or edit the text source file. 

I cannot speak for Make or any of the other GNU tools, but this bug has already
been fixed in the development GCC tree.

zw