[cfe-commits] Patch to make clang compile and work on Windows using MSVC8

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Mon Sep 3 19:29:12 PDT 2007


>>
>> It looks like it might just be trailing whitespace removed.
>> Is this intentional or just something extraneous in the patch?
>
> This was intentionally. AFAIK a backslash/newline should be  
> recognized as a
> line continuation only if there is no whitespace in between those.

This is a well known (and long-debated) GCC extension that we're  
intentionally compatible with.

-Chris




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