"[PATCH] - cppinit.c string length"

[Henner Zeller]

Hi,
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Donn Terry wrote:
DT| Some compilers choke on a single string that's too long.  Break it up
DT| into ISO C (89) maximum size chunks.  The compiler that ran into this

MSVC++ ? :-) .. sorry, couldn't resist ..

DT| could live with it broken into three chunks, and most others didn't notice
DT| at all, so this is probably more than strictly required.  However, ZW asked
DT| for it to be minimal (509 characters (yup, five hundred and NINE, according
DT| to the standard!)), so 6 80 character lines is convieniently under that,

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DT|    fputs (_("\
DT|  Switches:\n\
DT|    -include <file>           Include the contents of <file> before other
DT| files\n\
DT| @@ -1799,6 +1831,8 @@ Switches:\n\

if changing this to be more standard conforming anyway, why not doing it
the (IMHO) more readable way with 
automatic C string concatenation instead of these awkward backslashified
strings. Something like

 fputs(_("whatever ...)"
	 "  -include ..... \n"
	 "  -files .....\n"));

(stupid standards, btw, thank god, that they dont limit the maximum size
of pre-initilized arrays .. lex/yacc would have their problems :-)  

ciao,
 -hen