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Re: "[PATCH] - cppinit.c string length"

To: Henner Zeller <zeller at stud dot fh-heilbronn dot de>
Subject: Re: "[PATCH] - cppinit.c string length"
From: Zack Weinberg <zack at wolery dot cumb dot org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 18:12:17 -0700
Cc: Donn Terry <donnte at microsoft dot com>, "'gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
References: <309F4FC4705DC844987051A517E9E39BF5BCA1@red-pt-02.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <Pine.LNX.4.05.10007040254500.29201-100000@lara.stud.fh-heilbronn.de>

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 03:05:30AM +0200, Henner Zeller wrote:
> 
> Hi,
...
> if changing this to be more standard conforming anyway, why not
> doing it the (IMHO) more readable way with automatic C string
> concatenation instead of these awkward backslashified strings.

Automatic string concatenation cannot be used in this file, because it
must be compiled with pre-ISO C compilers, which do not support that
feature.

zw

References:
- "[PATCH] - cppinit.c string length"
  - From: Donn Terry
- Re: "[PATCH] - cppinit.c string length"
  - From: Henner Zeller

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