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In RT#60161 Nick Clark remarked:

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:37:23AM -0800, Andy Dougherty wrote:

 > The latest version of Sun's compiler,
 > cc: Sun Ceres C 5.10 SunOS_i386 2008/10/22
 > needs the following patch to compile parrot. The problem appears to be
 > the same one already documented for icc in tools/build/c2str.pl:
 >
 > # NOTE: when CONST_STRING gets used it and any macro invocations
 > # that it is used in *should not* be split across more than one
 > # line, because some compilers generate line numbers in such cases
 > # differently from the way gcc does this (a case in point is
 > # Intel's C compiler, icc) and hence the #defined CONST_STRING
 > # won't be found by the compiler.

Shouldn't there be a coding standard to enforce *that*?



This sounds sane and should be implemented. Takers are welcome.


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