docs still say gcc accepts multi-line strings
>Submitter-Id: net
>Originator: Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>
>Organization: The Debian Project
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis:
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Category: preprocessor
>Class: doc-bug
>Release: 3.3 (Debian) (Debian testing/unstable)
>Environment:
System: Debian GNU/Linux (unstable)
host: i386-pc-linux-gnu
build: i386-pc-linux-gnu
target: i386-pc-linux-gnu
configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i386-linux
>Description:
[ Reported to the Debian BTS as report #194391.
Please CC 194391@bugs.debian.org on replies.
Log of report can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/194391 ]
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
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