Re: [PATCH] gcc 3.0.1 warnings about multi-line literals

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
22 Oct 2001 13:51:29 -0700

Followup to: <20011022161527.K23213@redhat.com>
By author: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:05:10PM -0700, John Hawkes wrote:
> > This patch eliminates gcc 3.0.1 warnings, "multi-line string literals are
> > deprecated", in two include/asm-i386 files. Patches cleanly for at least
> > 2.4.10 and 2.4.12, and tested in 2.4.10.
>
> Please reject this patch. The gcc folks are wrong in this case.
>

It's not gcc even, it's C99 which are making these explicitly
deprecated. If you want a string literal which includes \n and are
mapped in that form, do either:

"foo\n"
"bar\n"
"baz\n"

... or ..

"foo\n\
bar\n\
baz"

I usually do the former.

-hpa

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