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Re: UNIX versus DOS Line ending


> --- 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.

It already does even in binary mode, if gcc is configured with 
--enable-cpplib. It seems that this gcc feature will be enabled by 
default in the not-so-distant future.



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