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Re: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h


> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:18:10 -0500 (EST)
> From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com>
> To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
> cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>

> 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?

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > It isn't supposed to be doing that.

> I have to say this... the K&R rule is preposterous for code specific
> to targets that never had a K&R compiler, e.g. Cygwin.  Why waste
> any energy on a non-problem?

You seem to think that build == host == target, while that might be
try some of the time, it isn't true all of the time.


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