backslash whitespace newline

[Joe Buck]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:45:55PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Joe Buck wrote:
> >I personally like the fact that gcc's behavior does not depend on  
> >invisible characters
> 
> All other things being equal, this is a nice design goal.  I like it  
> too.  Should we break peoples otherwise portable code to have an  
> implementation defined behavior that no one else has?

Code that depends on invisible whitespace to function correctly is
already broken.  At some point, someone will do the equivalent of
delete-trailing-whitespace and break it.

And the code is easily cleaned up.