* Ian Lance Taylor: > I don't think we necessarily have to change anything.
Yes, I think that the standard does not require a particular approach to this problem. > But I think that Florian's point is that we don't have to confuse the > concrete implementation with the abstract source representation. We > could define gcc such that when it sees a concrete file which does not > end in ASCII 0x0a, it automatically appends ASCII 0x0a in the abstract > representation. Exactly. During the first translation phase, end-of-line indicators are converted to new-line characters. If the majority of compilers treats end-of-file as an end-of-line indicator (which wouldn't surprise me), GCC can and should follow the crowd.
