What is really a new line in most compilers

[Howard Hinnant]

On Oct 26, 2005, at 5:17 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:

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>> Just a nit:  5 years ago that was true.  Now \n is "native"
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> Was that part of the OS/X migration, or otherwise?  Just curious.

<nod> Part of the migration.  OS X /is/ unix.  Ok, I'm sure that's an  
inaccurate statement and I trust the more experienced Apple guys here  
will gently correct me.  But it really is... ;-)

>> but most Mac software is pretty tolerant of newline representation
>> due to its history.
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> Of course, that only makes it *more* of a mess, and *less* likely that
> gcc is going to please everyone :-P

Yeah, I figured I should've defined "tolerant" a little better. :-)

-Howard