On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Patrick Wallace wrote:
> > Looking around the tree there are actually quite a lot of double
> > backslashes around. There's an astonishingly large number in the obsolete
> > tree (IUEDR and NDPROGS), but the following also seem to have small
> > numbers of them: CCDPACK, DIPSO, ESP, FIGARO, KAPPA, POLPACK, GRP,
> > KAPLIBS, NDG, PCS, SNX and PGPLOT.
> >
> > Since this probably means that small parts of all these packages are
> > currently broken under Tru64, I guess we'd better have a strategy to fix
> > them, so I'll offer to spend a few hours fixing the more useful packages.
> > If I get bored or bogged down we'll need to switch to either compiling
> > with the "-old_f77" or "-assume nobackslash" options enabled.
>
> I haven't been following this thread in detail, but I suppose it has
> occurred to you that individual software items may be assuming different
> things about the way backslashes are handled. :-(
That did occur to me, but happily it's not true. All the software assumes
that '\\' prints a single backslash, which was true until recently.
At least that means we can consistently play about with compiler options.
Cheers,
Peter.
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