On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:37:33 +0200, Alexandr Nedvedicky wrote: > because earlier line at 5279 grants the variable c holds backslash, > therefore it can't contain space or tab. The simple change is tempting, > but let's check the history first. That particular line has been > introduced 10+ years ago with commit message as follows: > > in the lex... even inside quotes, a \ followed by space or tab should > expand to space or tab, and a \ followed by newline should be ignored > (as a line continuation). compatible with the needs of hoststated > (which has the most strict quoted string requirements), and ifstated > (where one commonly does line continuations in strings). > > Comment above makes me thinking the intended change looks as follows: > > 5282 if (next == quotec || next == ' ' || next == '\t')
I agree with your analysis. Thank you for taking the time to determine the author's intent instead of blindly trusting the static analyzer. - todd