[Beowulf] multiline string literals...

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> Does anybody here know WHY multiline literals ... are deprecated in gcc?  

As written at the top of:

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/changes.html

they were deprecated for quite some time. So it's a bit late to ask now 
:-)

> A string is a bunch of bytes in memory.

I think that this has more to do with (pre)processing the source rather 
than storing the result in memory.

> It is clearly a million times more tedious to code this in one line at a
> time, and many times more likely to contain a bug as well.

Agreed :-)
One other example is inlined ASM...

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Bogdan Costescu

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