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Re: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h

From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, gcc <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:05:59 -0800
Subject: Re: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h
Organization: The NUXI BSD group
References: <20020124173429.GA1029@codesourcery.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10201241443430.4856-100000@mars.deadcafe.org>
Reply-to: obrien at FreeBSD dot org

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 06:18:10PM -0500, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> 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?

FreeBSD has never had a K&R compiler either, yet I've had patches
rejected over this issue.  Consistency would be nice.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

References:
- Re: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h
  - From: Jeff Sturm

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