From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shriramana Sharma Subject: why is "no newline at end of file" a warning? Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:07:04 +0530 Message-ID: <46844620.4050902@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Linux C Programming List Hello. gcc (and so many other *nix utilities) often give a warning (sometimes even an error) if there is "no newline at end of file". I would like to know why this is such a serious issue that it deserves to be called a warning (or an error). Shriramana Sharma.