On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Brett Cannon wrote: > Lastly, I would like to have it strip trailing whitespace in C files. > The only problem is that I don't know if removing trailing whitespace > could possibly cause a problem or not. Anyone know?
I would be worried about the sequence backslash-space-newline. Off the top of my head I can't see why that would occur in valid code, but dropping the space would give you an escaped newline which could be different from the original. I'd be worried about some weird case related to macro expansion or definition. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cppinternals/Lexer.html has some information related to the Gnu C preprocessor which may be relevant. Have you considered also forcing Mac "\r" and DOS "\r\n" line endings to Unix "\n" style? Isaac Morland CSCF Web Guru DC 2554C, x36650 WWW Software Specialist _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
