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[Andrew Pinski]

> 
> On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Joe Buck wrote:
> > I'm having a hard time picturing source code that
> >
> >  a) exhibits different behavior because of this bug, and
> >  b) is maintainable (remember, the behavior depends on the presence
> >     of characters that are completely invisible to many tools).
> >
> > Perhaps you could explain (without violating the customer's
> > confidentiality) how it is that this is an important problem?
> 
> Existing ASCII line art in documentation embedded in the source code  
> as C++ style comments.

In fact the removal of the warning for comment cases was that exact case
so ...

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-04/msg00603.html


http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-11/msg00267.html

-- Pinski