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Re: UNIX versus DOS Line ending
- To: Uwe Bonnes <bon at elektron dot ikp dot physik dot tu-darmstadt dot de>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: UNIX versus DOS Line ending
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 05:14:36 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
>
> Hallo,
>
> for those livin in a mixed Unix/Dos environment, the (bad) habbit of
> Dos/Windows programs to replace LF with CR/LF has probably caused
> grief before. Especially Macros going over several lines get unreadable.
>
> Couldn't we make GCC swallow CR/LF?
>
It already does!! But, you have to be in "Text Mode Processing". See the
archives.
> Would such a patch have chances to get into the standard GCC?
>
Depends on the patch and your assignment forms acceptance. A nice feature
would be to have an "Auto Mode Processing" such that \n, \r\n, or \r gets used
automatically based on the content of the file.
=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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