On Oct 24, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Neil Booth wrote:
Howard Hinnant wrote:-
I've been reviewing the age-old issue of interpreting
<whitespace>*<newline> as the end-of-line indicator as is the current
practice with gcc.
FWIW I support abandoning this behaviour too.
I filed bugzilla 24531 about this.
Haven't heard Joseph weigh in on this issue, but here are the options
that I see:
a) We enable the conditional warning for line continuation in a
comment at all times
(just as we do for normal lines)
b) Change the preprocessor to remove the behavior and disable the
continuation
if we have a \ followed by a space
c) Do nothing.
Option c will leave us with the current behavior that I don't believe
I've heard
anyone want to keep (other than it's the current documented behavior).
I'll work up a patch for b since that's what Apple would like the
most. I believe that
option a is needed at least.
This is, as Mr. Buck has noted, a regression from 2.95.
-eric
