From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10624 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2005 23:16:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 10592 invoked by uid 48); 1 Sep 2005 23:16:37 -0000 Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:16:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20050901231637.10591.qmail@sourceware.org> From: "pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20050901230506.23688.simon_baldwin@yahoo.com> References: <20050901230506.23688.simon_baldwin@yahoo.com> Reply-To: gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug preprocessor/23688] Compiler does not warn on selected unknown character escapes X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00156.txt.bz2 List-Id: ------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-09-01 23:16 ------- Hmm, the comment in the preprocessor is all of those: case '(': case '{': case '[': case '%': /* '\(', etc, can be used at the beginning of a line in a long string split onto multiple lines with \-newline, to prevent Emacs or other text editors from getting confused. '\%' can be used to prevent SCCS from mangling printf format strings. */ -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23688