Ivan Kozlov (28 July 2020 16:18) wrote
> The expected behaviour is useful because it allows portably quoting
> macros with here-documents, for example:
> > sed '$s:\\$::' <<\end; : \\
> > $V\
> > end
> should print the literal value of the macro $V that can contain single
> quotes and special
My test case is actually wrong. The standard output would be the same in both
cases.
Here is a proper test case:
>.POSIX:
>test:
> A=\\
> echo $$A
The expected result is
>\
being written to the standard output. The actual result is an empty line being
written.
Another example is:
>.POSIX:
On Tue, 2020-07-28 at 08:07 +0300, Ivan Kozlov wrote:
> Doubling the backslash suppresses special newline handling in GNU
> make. I don’t see anything in the standard that allows this. It
> defines an escaped newline as one preceded by a backslash and doesn’t
> say anything about backslashes being
Doubling the backslash suppresses special newline handling in GNU make. I don’t
see anything in the standard that allows this. It defines an escaped newline as
one preceded by a backslash and doesn’t say anything about backslashes being
treated specially otherwise.
Test case:
>.POSIX:
>test:
>
