Dear Chris, In message <52f8a706.7030...@free.fr> you wrote: > > > "abc" > > "def" > > > > Is a valid C string, and does not require a backslash. Do I miss > > something? > > Yes, you are of course correct: the result is the C string "abcdef" and = > > the backslash in the original is superfluous. > However a grep for "abcdef" in the source code won't match it :( > This is why splitting strings like this is discouraged in the Linux kernel.
To be precise, the Linux CodingStyle refers to "user-visible strings such as printk messages". Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
