Re: [cbm4linux-users] cbm4linux on Suse 8.2 & GCC 3.3

[Michael K. <mic...@pu...>]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:

> Michael Klein wrote:
>
> > Are multi-line literals an error in gcc 3.3? (2.95 Doesn't complain at
> > all here, while 3.0 prints a deprecation warning)
>
>
> well, regardless of whether they are errors or not: Why use them?

Aesthetical reasons aside, I can only think of some pre-ANSI compiler
that doesn't allow string concatenation but line continuation.

> Something like
>
>    a = "abc"
>        "def"
>        "ghi";
>
> Works perfectly in ANSI-C and C++, is defined and is *exactly* the
> same as
>
>   a = "abcdefghi";

Yup, that's how I'm doing it right now ;-)

> On the other hand, Andreas' solutions as far from that good since it
> uses a new call to printf() for every line.

That's right. Wouldn't hurt /that/ much here, though ;-)

Take care,
Michael

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