Poorly terminated header files.

[chris at umcp-cs.UUCP]

In article <5722 at think.COM> rst at think.COM (Robert Thau) writes:
>What does X3J11 say about these cases, if anything?  The last time I
>looked at a draft standard, __LINE__ and __FILE__ were in it; what are
>their values on the split line, if such things are allowed?

`The last character in a source file included by a #include
preprocessing directive shall be a new-line character that is not
part of a token.'

I recall, but cannot find, a statement to the effect that an
unterminated line in an included file is essentially a syntax
error.
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