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Re: No more multiline string constants
- To: espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: No more multiline string constants
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 12:44:49 -0400 (EDT)
<<But saying that multiline string constants are ugly very much amounts to
saying that extended asm is ugly... Well, is it ?
Is anyone proposing to deprecate multiline asm ?
I don't think so.
>>
Why can't we allow the multiline string constants ONLY in the asm context.
This is a machine/implementation dependent addition anyway, so it can
perfectly well have special lexical rules.