10 Feb
2014
10 Feb
'14
7:27 p.m.
Dear Chris,
In message 52F8A706.7030103@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
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The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux.