CR-LF Line Endings Break Multi-Line Strings

[stellahymmne]

Zig Version

0.9.0

Steps to Reproduce

test "Multi-Line Strings" {
    const str = 
    \\a b
    \\  c
    ;
}

This code will compile when lines end with only a \n newline character, but will break if Windows-style \r\n line endings are used.

Expected Behavior

The code compiles successfully.

Actual Behavior

src\test.zig:10:10: error: expected ';', found invalid bytes
    \\a b
         ^
src\test.zig:11:6: note: invalid byte: '\\'
    \\  c
     ^

[ominitay]

Won't be fixed. Wait for the self-hosted compiler, in which this works as intended. In the meantime, fix your editor and git configs, and run zig fmt to quickly fix this.

[nektro]

intentional behavior, not a bug

[Vexu]

Current plan is for zig fmt to fix this ziglang/zig-spec#38

Also worth noting that the example currently crashes a debug build of zig fmt.

[moosichu]

Looking at fixing this now as a heads-up. It's worth highlighting that this now crashes the compiler as well.