Joe Buck wrote:
So you want the compiler to only consider '\\$" a continuation,
Not my preference, but that is my proposal, in the interest of compatibility.
but to have an unsilenceable warning about '\\ *$'?
Not unsilenceable - but on-by-default. It could be silenced with an explicit -Wno-comment. (Or whatever mechanism we use to control warnings.) The point is that since it's silly and dangerous to depend on trailing whitespace, and it's normally a mistake, we should warn about it even without -Wall, but if people really want to live dangerously they can turn it off.
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.
They can use -Wno-comment. -- --Per Bothner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://per.bothner.com/