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Article #4183Re: Maximum length of line of C code
From: Christopher R. Volpe
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 13:50
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 13:50
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In article <DFxM87.Jyu@rci.ripco.com>, mambuhl@ripco.com writes:
>colin@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Colin Plumb) in <44t7ht$ms2@nyx10.cs.du.edu>
>writes:
>
>>For example, I cannot split:
>>printf("Hello, world!\n");
>>into:
>>printf("Hello, world!\\
>>n");
>
>This is a guess, right? My cpp thinks the split form maps to:
>printf("Hello, world!\n");
>
>>The latter is roughly equivalent to
>>printf("Hello, world!\\\nn");
>
>really? Did you try this?
Either he didn't try it or his compiler doesn't understand "phases of
translation".
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bart.crd.ge.com!volpe From: volpe@bart.crd.ge.com (Christopher R. Volpe) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Maximum length of line of C code Date: 5 Oct 1995 13:50:24 GMT Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development Sender: volpe@bart (Christopher R. Volpe) Distribution: world Message-ID: <450nr0$jud@rdsunx.crd.ge.com> References: <DFxM87.Jyu@rci.ripco.com> Reply-To: volpe@ausable.crd.ge.com NNTP-Posting-Host: bart.crd.ge.com