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Re: Newline in constant string

To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: Newline in constant string
From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:40:39 +0000
Cc: Dave Raggett <dave_raggett at hotmail dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <F13utSgcOrBLSAQV6uP0000ac05@hotmail.com> <orsnn79a3p.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>

Alexandre Oliva wrote:-
> On Dec 29, 2000, "Dave Raggett" <dave_raggett@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > warning in such case. e.g. "missing '\' in your constant string".
> 
> Why?  I think this usage is already blessed by ISO C89.

Nope, definitely not.  It's not in C99 either.  I don't like this GCC
extension, but that's just MHO since it uglifies cpplib and is
unnecessary anyway.

Neil.

References:
- Newline in constant string
  - From: Dave Raggett
- Re: Newline in constant string
  - From: Alexandre Oliva

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