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Re: GCC is depreciating multi-line strings
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 06:04:47PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>Um, I'm slightly confused. What exactly is ment by multi-line strings?
>I've found this link and am still looking :-)
>
>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-03/msg00855.html
Cygwin has been bit by this recent change.
a = "This is
the multiline string
that has been deprecated.";
gcc stores that as three separate lines.
The "correct" way to do this is:
a = "This is\n\
the multiline string\n\
which has not been deprecated.";
This is also ok, of course:
a = "abc\
def";
It is equivalent to:
a = "abcdef";
The reason for deprecating the non \ usage is that it is not portable.
If gdb uses this construct, I have a hard time believing that this could
be true.
A quick grep seems to show that gdb is doing the right thing so I really
don't think that this is an issue.
cgf