The GCC "End of Text Line" Bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> > 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.

The latest version 3.78.1 of GNU Make will DTRT with DOS-style
Makefile's, as do Patch 2.5.x and Emacs 20.x.

Btw, there are a number of very nice GUI front-ends to GDB (Emacs is
one, but if you want something fancier, you can have it, too).  So
perhaps you don't need all that juggling at all.