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From: klatchko@cory.Berkeley.EDU (ron klatchko)
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Subject: Re: Max line length (was Re: programming challenge ...)
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Date: 13 Mar 89 01:46:59 GMT
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In article <9777@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:
>>Of course, you need to delete the newline after the first line.
>
>What is the longest line allowed in a C program?  Does the standard say?
>Do present compilers care?

That is implementation dependent.  If your compiler attempts to read in 
an entire line at a time and digest it, then you're compiler would have 
some maximum length.  If the compiler reads the the code in character by 
character (lex does this), then there should be no maximum length.

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