Re: Multi line string literals are deprecated considered bad

[Jamie Lokier <egcs at tantalophile dot demon dot co dot uk>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 	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.

Well, yours doesn't edit too well in Emacs -- Tab doesn't auto-indent
each line.  On the other hand, Emacs will auto-indent this:

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

So I find that easier to edit :-)

-- Jamie