Re: Compile error in current CVS, src/server.c:5500

[Derek Robert Price]

Mark D. Baushke wrote:

> Derek Robert Price <derek@ximbiot.com> writes:
>  
>
> > Do you know when split strings began being supported?  C89?  
> >    
>
> Yup.
>
> There was much contention and debate during drafts of the ANSI C
> standard, but I am fairly sure that ANSI/ISO 9899-1990 (aka C89) is the
> first one to force the behavior (section 6.1.4 "String Literals").
>
> Where the grammer is
>
>  Syntax:
>    string-literal
>         "s-char-sequence[opt]"
>         L"S-char-sequence[opt]"
>    s-char-sequence:
>         s-char
>         s-char-sequence s-char
>    s-char
>         any member of the source character set except
>             the doulbe quote ("), backslash (\), or new-line character
>         escape-sequence
>
> So you will note that the new-line character has never actually been
> a formal part of the string-literal without being escaped. It is only
> in recent compilers that this is being enforced.
>
> In ISO/IEC-9899-1999 (aka C99), the same syntax is provided (but it is
> now in section 6.4.5 String Literals). The only real change is that the
> text of the description and semantics has been expanded for
> clarification and the single-quote clarified as having two
> representations (either "'" or "\'").

This doesn't seem to specify the:

   "some text\n"
   "some more text "
   "even more text\n"

style strings.  Do you know if that is supported C89+?  Or should we be 
sticking with the ugly:

   "some text\n\
some more text even more text\n"

style strings?

Derek

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