On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:35:45AM -0800, Per Bothner wrote: > Joe Buck wrote: > >On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 03:45:33AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > > > >>1. Change the behavior (back) so only '\\$', not '\\ *$', causes a > >> line to be continued. > > >The problem with your item #1 is that there is then no way of flagging > >code that won't work with the large numbers of production compilers > >based on gcc 3.x, as well as code that will break if anyone ever removes > >trailing whitespace (something that can easily happen in the process > >of editing the code). > > My hope was that an improved on-by-default -Wcomment would catch that. > I.e. it would warn about any code that act be differently depending > on whether trailing whitspace is removed.
So you want the compiler to only consider '\\$" a continuation, but to have an unsilenceable warning about '\\ *$'? That would appear not to solve the problem of the customers who are wedded to their line art, that started this discussion in the first place.
