ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h

Billinghurst, David (CRTS) David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com
Thu Jan 24 16:17:00 GMT 2002


I can prepare and test a patch is someone can point me in the right direction.  An example always helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: Zack Weinberg [mailto:zack@codesourcery.com]
Sent: Friday, 25 January 2002 4:34 
To: David O'Brien
Cc: gcc
Subject: Re: ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h


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?
> This is against the K&R rules for coding in GCC.  Or has that rule been
> receded?  Being able to use ANSI string constant concatenation would
> certainly make my job writing FreeBSD configuration files easier.

It isn't supposed to be doing that.  I see why it was written that
way, though.  I suspect that a named spec string will serve instead.

zw



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