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

[Andrew Pinski]

> 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?

^L is the marker for a new page so this is white space and is ignored 
correctly by GCC.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski