From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: Wes Barris <wes@networkcs.com>, <gnats-devel@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: gnats compiling error
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:26:00 -0000
Message-id: <87n1apjuce.fsf@zamazal.org>
References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103120118030.39504-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00058.html

>>>>> "GP" == Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

    >> Is it sufficient to simply split the long string into several
    >> strings via string concatenation
    >> 
    >> "..." "..." "..." "..."

    GP> No, I don't think so, for the result will be one big string.

Could someone please actually try it with the new gcc?  I can imagine
the ISO requirement only concerns contingent limited buffer size for
reading a lexical element enclosed by two double quotes.  I'd like to be
sure before doing the incredibly stupid thing of constructing the usage
description string in run time.

Thanks,

Milan Zamazal

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