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Re: warn/croak on "string" "string" auto-joins

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
To: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>,Adam Monsen <haircut at gmail dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:03:38 -0400
Subject: Re: warn/croak on "string" "string" auto-joins
References: <9ebd65110408171032227968ea@mail.gmail.com> <874qn14pvc.fsf@codesourcery.com> <41228E08.2010008@gnat.com> <412293CE.8000706@apple.com>

Stan Shebs wrote:

Not that unusual, for instance consider a macro that expands into
"%d" or "%ld", used in printf("before " MACRO " after", int_or_long)
and the like. Our very own code uses this trick even.


Right, perfectly reasonable. I would certainly never use this
warning flag myself. I suppose you could react to the above comment
by saying that the only time you give the warning is when two
strings appear together explicitly in an original source line,
but that's getting complex.

References:
- warn/croak on "string" "string" auto-joins
  - From: Adam Monsen
- Re: warn/croak on "string" "string" auto-joins
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: warn/croak on "string" "string" auto-joins
  - From: Robert Dewar
- Re: warn/croak on "string" "string" auto-joins
  - From: Stan Shebs

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