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Re: cc-mode adds newlines
From: |
Andries Brouwer |
Subject: |
Re: cc-mode adds newlines |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:54:33 +0100 |
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:54:24PM +0100, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> > It is also broken because the CC major mode is documented as "C
> > mode: Major mode for editing K&R and ANSI C code", while K&R C is
> > explicitly documented as not requiring a final newline.
>
> You mean the K&R book explicitly said so in it's pre-standard edition?
I do not have the K&R book here. I quoted an earlier source that I
do have here. Google also finds it various places on the web, e.g. at
http://www.freaknet.org/martin/tape/stuff/docs/cman/cman1
"Blanks, tabs, newlines, and comments as described below
are ignored except as they serve to separate tokens."
[C Reference Manual, Dennis M. Ritchie, May 1, 1977.
Reprinted in "The C Programming language" by BWK & DMR, 1978.]
> Naturally there is not really a standard definition of pre-standard C.
> From what I know about C89, like most restrictions, the requirement of
> a final newline was most likely made because one or more compilers
> required it that were already implemented and used before the
> standard.
Yes.
Andries
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, (continued)
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, David Kastrup, 2004/11/22
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Alan Mackenzie, 2004/11/21
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Andries Brouwer, 2004/11/21
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, David Kastrup, 2004/11/21
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Andries Brouwer, 2004/11/21
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/11/21
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Andries Brouwer, 2004/11/21
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/11/21
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Andries Brouwer, 2004/11/21
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Benjamin Riefenstahl, 2004/11/22
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines,
Andries Brouwer <=
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Andreas Schwab, 2004/11/22
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/11/21
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Kevin Rodgers, 2004/11/22
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/11/24
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- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Andries Brouwer, 2004/11/21
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/11/21
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Stefan Monnier, 2004/11/21
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Richard Stallman, 2004/11/22
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Stefan Monnier, 2004/11/22
- Re: cc-mode adds newlines, Kevin Rodgers, 2004/11/22