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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@mail.snowman.net>
To: BIONDI Philippe <Philippe.BIONDI@enst-bretagne.fr>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: line size on C sources files
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10003281329120.5831-100000@ns.snowman.net> (raw)
Message-ID: <20000401000000.Zwr5jOBIpR_AVVvvpztSl1nRKfXeFl00v2P0odceTsY@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10003281510400.16843-100000@ossian.enst-bretagne.fr>

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, BIONDI Philippe wrote:

> Is there anywhere on earth a rule/specification/usage that say that a C
> source file must not have any line that exceeds 255 characters ?

	Not that I am aware of.  C has always (to my knowledge) completely
ignored whitespace.  gcc certainly doesn't appear to care.

> I remember when my TPascal 4 EDI complained about lines bigger than 128
> characters, but I don't know any rule that limit this size (neither posix,
> nor ansi..). Am I wrong ? 
> Because if such rule exist, gcc cpp is wrong expanding macros on one
> (sometimes very long) line, and my Ingres precompiler win the round.
> If not, my convictions are right and esqlc is too badly coded ! (and I can
> complain to CAI)

	Hrm, sounds like 'esqlc' is badly coded, yes, but I would question if
you actually *need* to have a 255+ line. :)

		Stephen

  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-01  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-28  5:19 BIONDI Philippe
2000-03-28  5:25 ` Stephen Frost [this message]
2000-03-28  5:36   ` BIONDI Philippe
2000-03-28  5:41     ` Stephen Frost
2000-03-28  6:34       ` BIONDI Philippe
2000-04-01  0:00         ` BIONDI Philippe
2000-04-01  0:00       ` Stephen Frost
2000-04-01  0:00     ` BIONDI Philippe
2000-04-01  0:00   ` Stephen Frost
2000-03-28 15:14 ` Martin v. Loewis
2000-03-28 21:16   ` Bill C Riemers
2000-04-01  0:00     ` Bill C Riemers
2000-04-01  0:00   ` Martin v. Loewis
2000-04-01  0:00 ` BIONDI Philippe

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