> > On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Joe Buck wrote: > > I'm having a hard time picturing source code that > > > > a) exhibits different behavior because of this bug, and > > b) is maintainable (remember, the behavior depends on the presence > > of characters that are completely invisible to many tools). > > > > Perhaps you could explain (without violating the customer's > > confidentiality) how it is that this is an important problem? > > Existing ASCII line art in documentation embedded in the source code > as C++ style comments.
In fact the removal of the warning for comment cases was that exact case so ... http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-04/msg00603.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-11/msg00267.html -- Pinski
