On 7 Nov 2001, at 23:07, Hack Kampbjørn wrote: > Ed Powell wrote: > > I had to change: > > > > assert (ch == '\'' || ch == '"'); > > > > to: > > > > assert (ch == '\'' || ch == '\"'); > > > > Otherwise, it would not compile... it was, I think, interpreting the ", > > rather than using it literally. Escaping it appears to have fixed the > > problem. > > Right conclusion, wrong fix. Fix the broken software not the correct > one, i.e. your fix breaks wget on another broken platform (read the > below links if cannot guess which). You don't want to use Apple's > precompiler anyway.
Agreed that you don't want to use Apple's precompiler, but I couldn't tell from the links you posted what platform the "fix" fails to compile on. There was one reference to VC++ 5.0 breaking, but that was for the "unfixed" version.
