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Re: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: David O'Brien <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
- Cc: gcc <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:34:29 -0800
- Subject: Re: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h
- References: <20020124092534.A23276@dragon.nuxi.com>
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:25:34AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> Why is i386/cygwin.h allowed to use ANSI string concatenation?
> This is against the K&R rules for coding in GCC. Or has that rule been
> receded? Being able to use ANSI string constant concatenation would
> certainly make my job writing FreeBSD configuration files easier.
It isn't supposed to be doing that. I see why it was written that
way, though. I suspect that a named spec string will serve instead.
zw