509?? (Re: Max line length)

[Colin Plumb]

bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) wrote:
> John Carr and Doug Gwyn both quoted the pANS as requiring compilers to
> accept at least 509 chars of logical line...
> 
> Huh???

512 less a 3-byte EOL sequence.  Consider it to be 512 less CR/LF less
1 for good measure.
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