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Colin Plumb (colin@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: In article <44qg8v$s1m@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>,
: Richard Berthold <berthold@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
: > Is there a limit to the number of characters in a physical line of C
: > code which a "standard" compiler must be able to read (ie all lines
: > must be less than 80 characters etc)?
: > If there is no standard limit, does anyone know of any current
: > compilers with small limits ie < 512 ?

: The standard only guarantees 509 characters will be acceptable for *logical*
: lines, *after* backslash-continuedd lines have been spliced together.
: I don't think your technique is going to work in general.

So I can have an physical input line of more than 509 characters so long as it
contains enough trigraphs that colapse down in phase 1 to give a logical
line not exceeding 509 characters.

Is the new-line character counted as part of the line? I can't see it stated 
explicitly but the implication is that it is and comes at the end of the line.

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