Re: \ at the end of a comment is not ignored.

[Sanjeeb Sahoo]

Thanks for telling me the standard defined behaviour. We can now close this
issue.

Thanks and regards,
Sahoo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
To: "Sanjeeb Sahoo" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: \ at the end of a comment is not ignored.


> %% "Sanjeeb Sahoo" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   ss> Looks like the '\' character at the end of a comment continues to
>   ss> have the same special meaning. Please refer to the 3 liner
>   ss> makefile attached here with. when I invoke make, I get the
>   ss> following error...  Makefile:3: *** commands commence before first
>   ss> target.  Stop.
>
>   ss> When I remove the \ char fro the comment, it works fine. Should
>   ss> make not disable the special meaning of \ when it sees it in a
>   ss> comment line?
>
> No.  The POSIX standard requires the current behavior.
>
> IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Chapter 4--Utilities, Section "make":
>
>   23527  Comments start with a number sign ('#') and continue until an
>          unescaped <newline> is
>   23528  reached.
>
> --
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