Gareth Hughes <gareth.hughes@acm.org> said:
[...]
> Yes, unfortunately GCC 3.0 deprecated multiline string literals
AFAIU, they are non-standard, and can easily hide bugs (in opening a string
and forgetting to close you are in escence commenting out lines of code)
> -- I saw
> someone arguing on the GCC mailing lists that writing large chunks of
> inline asm shouldn't be "easy",
Right. If you use a compiler, you shouldn't need it much. Better make
other, more important, things easy/more foolproof, even at some cost for
the asm() writer. (Hint: Count the lines of asm in the kernel (an
_extremely_ heavy asm user!) vs the lines of plain C)
> as it interferes with the compiler's
> optimization passes. There were other such braindead arguments
> supporting the deprecation.
Yep, this is a braindead argument. There must have been others (sensible
ones)...
> The thread should be pretty easy to find in
> the archives. Don't know if the deprecation will be removed in future
> versions.
I hope they disallow multiline strings pretty soon.
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