Re: Escaping carriage-return newline bug on readline buffer resize

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Jacob A. Langford" <address@hidden> writes:

  jal> Attached is a Makefile with DOS style line termination.  For a
  jal> Solaris compiled make, the \ line continuation mechanism does not
  jal> work when the backslash carriage-return newline sequence falls at
  jal> the 200 byte readline buffer-resize boundary in read.c, as with
  jal> the attached Makefile.  The offending \ occurs after
  jal> FOM_ABNP_FDECK_object.o.  Note that if the \ is moved forward or
  jal> backward by a single character (i.e.  by changing the name of
  jal> another object file) that the problem goes away.

This has been reported and fixed in the source, and the fix will be
available in the next version.

Thanks for the report.

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