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Title: new line at the end of line
Post by: jokerar on August 11, 2005, 04:28:43 am

the compiler said that i must put a newline character(return) at the end of
every line of my code.

the Q is:
is this a programming requirement or is it compiler specified requirement?

thank

Title: Re: new line at the end of line
Post by: Ceniza on August 11, 2005, 05:58:37 am

It's more like a compiler specific "requirement" (it's just a warning). I would really like to know why it likes it that way :)

Title: Re: new line at the end of line
Post by: rickg22 on August 11, 2005, 06:18:28 am

That's why I added the feature in CVS  8)

Title: Re: new line at the end of line
Post by: takeshimiya on August 11, 2005, 06:25:00 am

It's not only a compiler specific "requeriment", it's the way ALMOST ALL Linux/Unix utilities expect a text file.
So as a general rule you must always put a newline character when editing any text file (not only .cpp)

Title: Re: new line at the end of line
Post by: thomas on August 11, 2005, 08:57:57 am

And it is part of the ISO standard for C and C++.
Although gcc has no problems with it, some old preprocessors would mess up under certain circumstances (#include following a file that has no line end).

Title: Re: new line at the end of line
Post by: mandrav on August 18, 2005, 08:57:11 pm

And it is a warning because, under certain circumstances, it could lead to a compiler error.

Yiannis.