[Bug preprocessor/41748] New: Continued lines are not merged into one long line

[d dot g dot gorbachev at gmail dot com]

This is a testcase (a space before a backslash or after a newline, and two
pairs of quotes (or no quotes at all), are important):

"hello," \
"world"

In GCC 4.5.0 20091015, preprocessor produces this:

# 1 "<stdin>"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command-line>"
# 1 "<stdin>"
"hello,"
 "world"

whereas older GCC versions give this:

# 1 "<stdin>"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command-line>"
# 1 "<stdin>"
"hello," "world"

Such a new behavior seems to be in contradiction with what the documentation
says: "the backslash is removed and the following line is joined with the
current one."


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           Summary: Continued lines are not merged into one long line
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.5.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: preprocessor
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: d dot g dot gorbachev at gmail dot com
 GCC build triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
  GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41748