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According to Xu Yibo on 12/10/2007 8:06 PM:
> Hello everybody,
>   I have found some invisible characters just like ^L, when I open common.h 
> with vi. I would like to ask two questions:
>   What the function of the character is?

It is a separator (form-feed), to divide the file into logical sections.

>   Is it a bug?

No.  In fact, it is intentional, and is recommended by the GNU Coding
Standards (see the last paragraph of
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Formatting.html#Formatting)

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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