Re: Multi line string literals are deprecated considered bad

[Andi Kleen <ak at suse dot de>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:54:15PM +0100, Carlo Wood wrote:
> This was discussed on this list before and several suggestions
> for inline assembly have been made.  The one I like best myself
> is:
> 
> 	asm("	mov a,b"
> "\n		mov c,d"
> "\nlabel:	mov e,f");
> 
> Excuse me for not knowing assembly, but you get the idea ;).

This is much harder to edit than

	asm("	mov a,b
		mov c,d
		mov e,f"); 

and adds more typo fix edit cycles and overall a step backwards to the 
inline assembly support.  Whoever decided to depricate it apparently
doesn't use inline assembly.

I think you cannot depricate it without giving an easily writable alternative
to the assembler users (and sorry, your proposal is not easily usable). That
would require a new inline assembly syntax that doesn't rely on strings
that heavily (e.g. like the asm { ... } most other compilers use). With the
current syntax removing the multiline strings would be very bad.

-Andi