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

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:28 AM, Hartmut Kaiser wrote:

> Chris,
>
>>>> 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.
>
> Understand. Can you (optionally) switch that off, just to be 100%  
> Standards
> comformant?

I believe we already emit "backslash and newline separated by space"  
as a warning.  I would be fine with changing it to an extension  
warning (visible with -pedantic). Is this what you mean?

-Chris