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[Mike Stump]

On Oct 25, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> Does that really matter?

gcc is free to ignore users, existing code, porting problems from  
other platforms and other C implementations, if we so choose.  I'm  
not used to writing such factors off wholesale.  I tend to think a  
balance is better weighing all the different factors.  On one hand,  
we have ascii line art in documentation, on the other hand, we have  
this esthetic beauty.  Existing, otherwise portable code against,  
confusing a user that is trying to do cut and paste programming on  
terminal emulators running curses packages that break cut-n-paste  
that can be themselves fixed, to fix not just gcc cut-n-paste  
programming, but all cut-n-pasting they might do.

Absent users, absent porting otherwise portable code, absent other  
implementations, I'd stick with the esthetics.