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From: Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net>
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Subject: Re: trigraphs, yecch
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"christian.bau" <christian.bau@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk> writes:

> On Feb 1, 5:50 am, "Charles Richmond" <netn...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
>
>> So just *remove* trigraphs from the *next* C standard.  Or require the
>> preprocessor symbol "__TRIGRAPH_IMPLEMENTED__" to be defined, or relegate
>> this to a PRAGMA...  before trigraphs would be recognized by the compiler.
>> Make it *extra* hard for the ordinary C programmer to step on this land
>> mine.
>
> A change that would silently break existing code.

How much existing code uses trigraphs?

-- Patrick