[boost] Re: smart_ptr.hpp newline problem

From: Reid Sweatman (reids_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-08-23 13:13:54

I had occasion over the weekend to have to deal with a file that had
obviously been edited in both UNIX and DOS editors over the years.
MultiEdit displayed garbage when opening in Windows default mode, and a
mostly clean file with some boxes in place of LF when opened in UNIX mode.
Strangely, the VC++ editor opened it with no problems (now there's a
surprise).  So I'm going to have to say it ain't standard yet <g>.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Plum [mailto:tplum_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 5:48 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [boost] Re: smart_ptr.hpp newline problem
> 
> 
> The Java spec spent one sentence assuring programmers that 
> CR, CR-LF, and LF
> are all acceptable line terminators.  Is that supposed to be 
> rocket science
> or something?  Now I wish I'd raised the point during the C++ 
> deliberations,
> somehow I assumed it would be so obvious in today's networked 
> environment
> that the standard wouldn't have to say it.
> 
> I guess we could sometime ask as a DR "Is there anything in the core 
> language that _prevents_ vendors from accepting CR, CR-LF, and LF all
> as _newline_?"
> 
> 
> At 12:21 AM 8/20/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >pete-_at_[hidden] wrote: 
> >original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/boost/?start=603
> >> > I don't know about Windows compilers accepting Unix 
> >> > conventions. The only Mac compiler (ie CodeWarrior) 
> >> > certainly accepts unconverted Unix files.
> >> 
> >
> >The MS compiler handles UNIX files, as does the IDE editor 
> except that any
> >line you add to the file get CR/LF instead of NL (i.e. most 
> of the file is
> >just NL with the bits you added CR/LF)! They still compile 
> with MS but some
> >UNIX compilers balk and it really messes up source control.
> >
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