backslash whitespace newline

Eric Christopher echristo@apple.com
Thu Oct 27 07:06:00 GMT 2005


On Oct 26, 2005, at 5:55 PM, Joe Buck wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:48:57AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> On 2005-10-26 12:39:31 -0400, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>>> But in a way you are defending it as you want GCC to change.  If  
>>> there
>>> was any other reason besides ASCII art, some people would be more  
>>> willing
>>> to change but there is a simple fix person's code to get around  
>>> this issue.
>>> And that is by not using C++ style comments and just use C style  
>>> ones.
>>
>> Adding a line
>>
>> //
>>
>> just after the ASCII art would be even easier.
>
> Eureka!

Yup. I've mentioned it. Boy have I mentioned it. :)

However, the "this is a small implementation defined issue that's  
easy to change for users that are migrating from other compilers"  
issue remains.

-eric



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