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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 05:14:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: 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
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--- Uwe Bonnes <bon AT elektron DOT ikp DOT physik DOT tu-darmstadt DOT 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.
 

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