On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 12:47:05AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Just discovered on the automake list that our make doesn't honour escaped
> comment lines, eg
> 
> 
> # hello \
>   there
> 
> which one might guess would be possible according to the man page. (Though
> it does say "In general", so maybe we could add "(not in comment lines)")
> 
> Thoughts?

What about continuation lines that look like comments:

	command args \
# more text \
		even more text

How should that be parsed?

Or try putting a multi-megabyte file that has no NL characters in
it through (IIRC) solaris 'grep'.  I think it keeps on expanding
the input buffer until it has a line to process, unfortunately
coded to be O(n^2) in the length of the line :-(

	David

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