Per Bothner wrote: > 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, please. We've been through these ***exact*** interchanges before. You're now just reiterating the entire thread. You aren't adding anything new, just informing everyone which of the already-discussed possibilities your own personal opinion happens to be. And you aren't even offering a patch. This thread should have been over long ago. Please, let it die with dignity.[*] cheers, DaveK [*] Or even without. But please, let it die! -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....