Re: 2.4.5 and gcc v3 final

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Sun, 24 Jun 2001 13:33:51 -0400


Fabian Arias <dewback@vtr.net> said:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:29:25AM +0400, Anatoly Ivanov wrote:
> > > I hope that lk-developers would fix it one day.

> > Multi-string literals is a nice little ANSI C feature that appears
> > everywhere. Why it is necessary to "fix" them?

> I think that "fix" doesn't necesary mean "kill" the feature.
> But is a problem that some of us, compiling the ac series with gcc-3, have
> had.

What gcc objects to is stuff like:

"This is a nice long string
that just goes on
and on\n"

which is illegal in C AFAIU. It does not object to:

"This long string"
"spans several lines, "
"but legally.\n"

The first form does/did appear in several asm()s. Fix them, send a patch.

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