Re: Warning message regarding string length

[Kenneth R Leach]

Steve,

Here is the response I received from my developer.

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No, there should not be a comma between each string.  This is because this
is how we must define a string's content which, as a whole, extends past
the 80 character width in the "C" file.  This tells the compiler that all
the separate strings defined are just one big single string and that they
all get concatenated together.   It is this single concatenated string that
gets assigned to the character pointer variable.
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Thanks.




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                      Stephen Gross                                             
                                                       
                      <sgross                  To:      Kenneth R 
Leach/CIV/CSC@CSC                                                    
                      @darwin.epbi.cwr         cc:      help-gplusplus@gnu.org  
                                                       
                      u.edu>                   Subject: Re: Warning message 
regarding string length                                    
                                                                                
                                                       
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Shouldn't there be commas between each string?

--Steve

> Here is a snippet of the code the warning is being generated against. I
> have marked the line number, referenced in the warning.
>
> /* Pre-datafile options */
> static runtime_option runtime_option_table[] =
> {
>     {"-help", OPT_EXACT,
>         {{OPT_FUNCTION, 0, {(int *)opt_help}}},
>         "\t-help (or -h)       | TERMINAL COMMAND OPTION ONLY |\n"
>         "\t    Prints a list of available CM command line options.\n"
>         "\t \n"
>         "\t    WARNING: This option should be used ONLY from a user
> terminal.\n"
>         "\t    Using this option within M&C or EMU will cause a
process\n"
>         "\t    failure.\n"
>         "\t \n"
>         "\t    Note: When the | DEVELOPMENTAL | indicator is listed it\n"
>         "\t          indicates that the command line option should only
> be\n"
>         "\t          used within a Developmental environment and NOT
> within\n"
>         "\t          an operational environment.  When omitted, the
> option\n"
>         "\t          can be used in either the Operational or
> Developmental\n"
>         "\t          environment.  See additional warnings and notes
> listed\n"
>         "\t          for each option.\n"
>         "\t \n"   <-------------- This is line 264.
>     },
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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>                       Stephen Gross
>                       <sgross                  To:      Kenneth R
Leach/CIV/CSC@CSC
>                       @darwin.epbi.cwr         cc:
>                       u.edu>                   Subject: Re: Warning
message regarding string length
>
>                       10/14/2003 09:38
>                       AM
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> > We recently updated our old GNU GCC 2.7.2.3 compiler to GCC 3.3.1.
> However,
> > we are now seeing the following warning message when compiling our
code:
> >
> > initialize.c:264: warning: string length `681' is greater than the
length
> > `509'
> > ISO C89 compilers are required to support
> >
> > Is this something we should be concerned about and/or is there an
option
> to
> > suppress these warnings?
> >
> > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> There are a *lot* of changes between 2.7.2.3 and 3.3.1. Can you post a
> full code snippet?
>
> --Steve
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