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Do not treat an escaped backslash at the end of a line as a hard break - #164
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A backslash at the end of a line is a hard line break, but not when it is escaped by another backslash: `a\\` followed by a line ending must render as `a\` and a soft break, not as a hard break.
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Split out of #152. Found by differential fuzzing against markdown-it-py (
commonmarkpreset).Bug: a backslash at the end of a line is a hard line break, but not when it is itself escaped by another backslash.
Repro:
a\\followed by a newline andbrendereda\<br />b. Expecteda\followed by a soft break.Fix:
Token::newlinetreats the final\as a hard break only if the run of backslashes ending the line has odd length. The run is counted withStringView::rev_iter().take_while(...).count().Spec examples: none (the spec suite passes either way).
Tests:
src/cmark_html/escaped_backslash_line_end_test.mbt.Depends on: nothing, independent of the other PRs.