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From: glennl@cit-vlsi.Caltech.Edu (Glenn M. Lewis)
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Subject: Re: Don't forget the comma
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Date: 24 Oct 88 15:33:58 GMT
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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" };
|...  What it does do is concat "s1" and "s2" into "s1s2" and put just the
|one pointer into array...
|Just thought I'd see if anyone else knew about this, and maybe save someone
|a few hours of  head-beating with a debugger...
|                John McCranie      FSJTM@ALASKA

	On page cc.20 (in the Compiler section) of the Manx Aztec C manual,
under section 3.7, it says:

	The compiler will merge adjacent character strings.  For example,
printf("file=" __FILE__ " line = %d func= " __FUNC__ , __LINE__ );


							-- Glenn Lewis

glennl@vlsi.caltech.edu