From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Stephen Smith <ischis2@home.com>, gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: GCC is depreciating multi-line strings
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:59:00 -0000
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Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> Um, I'm slightly confused.  What exactly is ment by multi-line strings?
> I've found this link and am still looking :-)
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-03/msg00855.html

Ok, there are the following:

   illegal:

	"blah
	blah"

    k&r

	"blah\n\
	blah"

    iso-c

	"blah\n"
	"blah"

GDB should only be using the latter two with new code prefering the last
one.  I think, for the most part, it is.  Code using the first can
obviously be fixed :-)

	Andrew