Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihuxy!lapin
From: lapin@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Don't forget the comma
Message-ID: <2683@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 88 17:41:01 GMT
References: <8810192323.AA21251@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: lapin@ihuxy.UUCP (David Roch)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <8810192323.AA21251@jade.berkeley.edu> <FSJTM%ALASKA.BITNET@jade.berkeley.edu> writes:
>[]
>Has anyone else run into this "feature" of Manx C?
>It happens with both 3.4b and 3.6a (at least, the ones I have).
>Minimal case -
>
>char *array[] = { "s1" "s2" };
>
>That's it.
>Now, it seems obvious to me (and every other compiler I
>have used) that this is a syntax error.  But the Manx compiler never even
>burps.

This is not an error.  According to the proposed ANSI C standard,
the two strings are concatentated, yielding "s1s2".  The purpose
of this is so that long text lines can still be readable.

e.g.
	char	*msg = "The quick brown fox jumped over the "
		       "lazy brown dog.";

My source of information:
	The C Programming Language 2nd Ed. (pg. 38)
	Kernigan/Ritchie
	Prentice Hall, 1988
	
				David Roch
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