Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:00:23 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199801250000.TAA02614@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <199801242352.AA097625925@typhoon.rose.hp.com> (message from
	Andrew Crabtree on Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:52:05 PST)
Subject: Re: gcc 2.8.0
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> Hmm - as in stop compiling or not working at all at finding the file?
> Thats definitely not the behaviour now.

If cpp left \ in the # lines, gcc would abort because it didn't
recognize the escape sequence (i.e. like '\n').

> The comments from the cygwin file seemed to indicate 
> that it would just enable '\' in addition to '/'.  This change was 
> probably made after egcs split off so there is a chance its not
> in the gcc sources.  It would be 1 line near the bottom of the 'xm' file.

If this is the case, OK.  I think the important issue is what gcc et
al *print*; what it accepts is a different issue - it *should* accept
both (except in strings, where \n would be newline, so '\' should be
avoided).