From: haleyjd AT NOSPAM DOT hotmail DOT com (James Haley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: No new line at end of file?
Date: 09 Sep 2002 12:02:38 GMT
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Hey Jon ^_^

I bit the bullet and fixed everything up. Hopefully Joel will be able
to get Eternity compiling with the latest DJGPP.  I plan on upgrading
my own setup before the next beta release so I can personally address
any issues as they arise.

I was just peeved and looking to tangle the other day and shouldn't
have come by here in such a mood. I said things I regret, but at least
I apologized, eh?

James

On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 11:37:38 GMT, Jon Dowland <jon AT frag DOT ord> wrote:

>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