OT: ^L in source (was Re: wrong line endings in a gnustep file)

[Eric Christopherson]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:58:16PM -0700, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> --- Riccardo Mottola <multix@ngi.it> wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > gui/Tools/gsnd/portaudio/pa_common/portaudio.h
> > 
> > has wrong line endings, I see ^M overall when opening it with VI (or using
> > cat -v).
> > Yes I did a clean checkout and other files are OK, so this one is bad.
> > 
> > and yes, it happens on another platform too.
> 
> Sounds like it might have been saved at some point with a DOS/Windows editor.

Only somewhat relatedly, I've been wondering about some source code I've seen
that has ^L (i.e. ctrl-L, ASCII 12) in it. I've seen it in some of the
GNUstep sources but also some other projects' code. What does it do in a C
source file? Does the compiler (or preprocessor) just ignore it?

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