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RE: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h
- From: "Billinghurst, David (CRTS)" <David dot Billinghurst at riotinto dot com>
- To: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 06:24:03 +0800
- Subject: RE: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h
I can prepare and test a patch is someone can point me in the right direction. An example always helps.
-----Original Message-----
From: Zack Weinberg [mailto:zack@codesourcery.com]
Sent: Friday, 25 January 2002 4:34
To: David O'Brien
Cc: gcc
Subject: Re: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h
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