Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: No new line at end of file?
From: Jon Dowland <jon AT frag DOT ord>
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Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 11:37:38 GMT
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haleyjd AT NOSPAM DOT hotmail DOT com (James Haley) wrote in news:3d79560b.172825941
@news.concentric.net:

Hi James ^_^ ltns

> I understand the importance of compliance with standards, but it can
> be a serious problem for large projects when there's no backward
> compatibility path for simple problems like this. 

It seems logical for files to end in a newline if they are being 
preprocessed, since the include directive is designed to do exactly that, 
and not worry about syntax issues. It seems that other behaviour should 
be optionally flagged on if required, rather than off.

> So that, in short, is my frustration.  I've enjoyed using DJGPP in the
> past but I've found maintenance to be more difficult than I'd expect.

Well since this is a GCC feature rather than DJGPP, does this mean you 
aren't supporting any other GCC ports for eternity, e.g. unixes, cygwin?

-- 
Jonathan Dowland