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Re: OT: ^L in source (was Re: wrong line endings in a gnustep file)


From: Eric Christopherson
Subject: Re: OT: ^L in source (was Re: wrong line endings in a gnustep file)
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:08:01 -0500
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 11:52:40AM -0400, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> >Only somewhat relatedly, I've been wondering about some source code 
> >I've seen
> >that has ^L (i.e. ctrl-L, ASCII 12) in it. I've seen it in some of the
> >GNUstep sources but also some other projects' code. What does it do in 
> >a C
> >source file? Does the compiler (or preprocessor) just ignore it?
> 
> ^L is the marker for a new page so this is white space and is ignored 
> correctly by GCC.

Ah, thanks (to all who answered). It never occurred to me that form feed is
white space :)

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