From: Pete B. <pb...@gm...> - 2010-12-07 19:23:31
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On 2010.12.07 19:10, Segher Boessenkool wrote: >> Do we expect to support a cygwin/MinGW gcc that can't handle CRLF? > > Why does that matter? GCC might handle CRLF line endings the way you > want; many other tools you can use with C files (grep, for one) don't. Mmmm, I hadn't really considered that, even though I seem to recall that Michael mentioned something like that. That's actually a good point. If we expect people to use tools that can't handle CRLF in cygwin and MinGW, then yes, I have to review my position. I think there's probably a valid scenario for wanting to use grep on our sources in MinGW/cygwin. I'm actually using sed on our sources in autogen to generate the .def so I should have thought about that one (though I have not seen any issue with sed). >> Again, why force-convert files if we don't have to? > > Why play fast-and-loose with it if you don't have to? Because it allows for "insane" ways of speeding up development. ;) Regards, /Pete |