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If the GNU cpp is run as follows:

	cpp -traditional test.c

where test.c contains:

 |
 |#ifndef FRED
 |"abc
 |"
 |#endif
 |

the following error message is produced:

   test.c:1: unterminated #if conditional

If cpp is run without "-traditional" the input is accepted.

K&R explicitly states that a newline can not appear in a string constant. I
couldn't find any statement in their section on ANSI that ANSI behaviour
was to be different. Is the above correct behaviour for cpp ? What makes me
doubt it is that a similar string constant outside of a #ifdef/#endif is
passed by cpp without complaint. To be consistent one or the other should
change. gcc itself accepts string constants with embedded newlines without
complaint.

What I am really trying to do is place assembly language between
#ifdef/#endif. For example:

#ifdef FRED
 asm( "
    mov r1,r2
    clr r0
    ....etc... 
")
#endif

With the above behaviour ( we need -traditional to obtain the correct
headers ), assembly language sequences within a #ifdef/#endif fail. Escaped
newlines can't be used, because the assembler won't accept the single line
input. The only other solution of having an "asm()" per instruction seems
clumsy. Can anyone suggest an alternative to this ?


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