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[Andrew Pinski]

> 
> 
> On Oct 24, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Neil Booth wrote:
> 
> > Howard Hinnant wrote:-
> >
> >> I've been reviewing the age-old issue of interpreting
> >> <whitespace>*<newline> as the end-of-line indicator as is the current
> >> practice with gcc.
> >
> > FWIW I support abandoning this behaviour too.
> 
> I filed bugzilla 24531 about this.

Note this is documented behavior and I don't think we should change it at
all since it is one more thing to break old gcc code like stuff in Linux kernel.

We have people already complaining about removing extensions.  Why should we change
this implementionation defined documented behavior.

-- Pinski