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gcc / algol68

Date

2026-09-16

Author

Pietro Monteiro

Commit

7e9b16ff30b30bc37a584ade0e8900b518a73a11

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github

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project: gcc
subsystem: algol68
patch_id: —
commit_hash: 7e9b16ff30b30bc37a584ade0e8900b518a73a11
source_type: github
headline: Algol68 scanner skips backslashes at line endings
tldr: Algol68 scanner now correctly handles lines ending with a backslash.
author: Pietro Monteiro
outcome: committed
performance_win: false
breaking_change: false
series_id: —
series_parts: []
tags: • parser
• scanner
• algol68
discussion_id_link: —
bugzilla_pr: —
url: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/7e9b16ff30b30bc37a584ade0e8900b518a73a11
date: 2026-09-16T00:00:00.000Z

The Algol68 scanner previously concatenated lines ending with a backslash. This commit modifies the scanner to instead skip the backslash at the end of a line, preventing incorrect line concatenations and improving source code parsing. A new test case is included to verify this behavior.