On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:07:08PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote: > gcc is free to ignore users, existing code, porting problems from > other platforms and other C implementations, if we so choose.
You still have not demonstrated that this is a real problem. If someone is having a real problem, then we can offer them a simple sed script to fix it. Are you really saying that someone is using ASCII line art in comments that tweaks this behavior? Wow. Write them a script to put a vertical bar character at the ends of the comment lines or something.