Package: gcc-3.3-doc
Version: 1:3.3-2
Severity: minor
The info file says:
String Literals with Embedded Newlines
======================================
As an extension, GNU CPP permits string literals to cross multiple
lines without escaping the embedded newlines. Each embedded newline is
replaced with a single `\n' character in the resulting string literal,
regardless of what form the newline took originally.
This no longer seems to be the case, however:
daniel@frobnitz:~/test$ cat mlstr.c
main() { printf("Foo
bar
"); }
daniel@frobnitz:~/test$ gcc -c mlstr.c
mlstr.c:1:17: missing terminating " character
mlstr.c: In function `main':
mlstr.c:2: error: parse error before "bar"
mlstr.c:3:1: missing terminating " character
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux frobnitz 2.4.21-pre5 #1 Sat Mar 1 09:01:10 PST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages gcc-3.3-doc depends on:
ii gcc-3.3-base 1:3.3-2 The GNU Compiler Collection (base
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