ANSI string concatenation in i386/cygwin.h

David O'Brien obrien@FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 25 00:39:00 GMT 2002


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.
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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