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Re: No more multiline string constants
- To: dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: No more multiline string constants
- From: Andi Kleen <ak at suse dot de>
- Date: 06 Jul 2001 21:34:01 +0200
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20010706174122.B0F31F2B5C@nile.gnat.com.suse.lists.egcs>
dewar@gnat.com writes:
> <<We could always support a flag to skip the sleep(), but it would be
> off by default, so that using a deprecated feature grows increasingly
> annoying over time, and people would tend to avoid it more and more.
> >>
>
> nag messages designed to annoy are in general a bad idea. Again, the important
> thing is to make sure that there is sufficient justification for deprecating
> a feature.
And also make sure there is a sufficient usable and clean replacement for the
"obsolete" feature. So far all alternatives I've seen to write
multiline inline assembly statements in GNU C without multiline
strings were disgusting and error prone at best.
-Andi