[linux-audio-dev] [ot] [rant] gcc, you let me down one time too many

[Clemens Ladisch]

Tim Goetze wrote:

> [Clemens Ladisch]
>
> > You mean you want to omit \n and the quotes?  That was always invalid
> > in both C and C++.
>
> Makes me wonder how come it used to compile cleanly then. Now please
> don't tell me "it's a gcc extension so it is evil"

It's a gcc extension so^H^Hfor compatibility with some old Unix
compilers that accidentally allowed it.  AFAIK it was dropped from g++
but not gcc because those old compilers didn't know about C++ anyway.

> because __asm__ is already kissing portability goodbye.

This issue is at a lower level, i.e., how to parse string literals.


Regards,
Clemens