Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: implicitly continued string constants
Message-ID: <1991May15.155113.10624@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 15:51:13 GMT
References: <21455@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <21455@ogicse.ogi.edu> morgan@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Clark O. Morgan) writes:
>I noticed the other day that gcc (version 1.39) does not error
>implicitly continued string constants (e.g., string constants that
>contain actual newlines)...
>
>So here's the question, is the following program legal ANSI C?

No.  Newline is specifically excluded from the list of characters that
can occur within an ANSI C string literal.

You err in assuming that gcc is an ANSI C compiler, however.  It will try
to pretend to be one if you give the right magic combination of options,
but by default it compiles something which is neither old C nor ANSI C.
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