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In article <3vn3sp$qi6@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> Could someone confirm that I have understood correctly that the order
> of translation phases is to be taken in deadly earnest,

*Everything* in the Standard is to be taken in deadly earnest.

> that "backslash new line" can appear _anywhere_, so that for example
>	|L\
>	|'x\
>	|'
> is a valid long character constant, and
> 	|/\
>	|* wow *\
>	|/
> is a valid comment?

Right. Further, trigraphs are done *before* this, so that the first can
be written as:

    |L??/
    |'x??/
    |'

The reasoning behind this is that *any* strictly conforming C program
can be written using only the ISO-646 invariant character set, on an
implementation with a limited line length.

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