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- Subject: Re: What is the preferred way to embed multi-line string in C source?
- From: David Given <dg@...>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:12:27 +0000
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David Jones wrote:
[...]
> Yes, adjacent literal strings just get concatenated. The portable limit
> on the total length of the string as specified in the standard is 4095
> characters (in C99). If you are generating C code with a program you
> can easily go past this.
...but don't forget that a string array initialiser (const char foo[] =
"...") is not the same as a string literal (const char* foo = "..."),
and the limits don't apply to initialisers.
(Yes, I did have to work with a compiler that would crash if you went
beyond the length limit for literals.)
- --
David Given
dg@cowlark.com
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