'Neil Booth' wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:-
>
>>
>> I would like it to be retained in at least one case: CRLF line endings
>> should still work, specifically backslash-CR-LF should be usable to
>> indicate a continued line. So how about having gcc accept
>>
>> <cr>?<newline>
>>
>> instead?
>
> This is entirely orthogonal; the two issues should not be confused.
>
> Neil.
So it is. For a long time gcc accepted CRLF line ends everywhere *except*
after a continuation character; when it started working, I thought it was an
indirect consequence of the whitespace collapsing, but a quick browse
through cpplex.c/skip_escaped_newlines shows that it's only non-vertical
whitespace that gets collapsed, and that handle_newline specifically accepts
CR-LF (and LF-CR) as well as LF.
Apologies for the noise; I certainly agree it's a violation of the
language spec to allow tabs and spaces after the backslash.
cheers,
DaveK
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