Newline in constant string

[Michael Meissner]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:11:11AM -0000, Dave Raggett wrote:
> When I wrote some codes like this
> char *MyName="I am Dave Ra
> ggett";
> 
> gcc will treat the string as "I am Dave Ra\nggett".so I think gcc should 
> give some
> warning in such case. e.g. "missing '\' in your constant string".

If you use the -ansi -pedantic switches, it will give you a warning.

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