String Constant Concatenation in MPW (ANSI) C

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sat Jan 28 14:02:41 AEST 1989


In article <24885 at apple.Apple.COM> desnoyer at Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers) writes:
>Am I really not allowed to do this in ANSI C? Or is this a
>bug in the MPW C compiler?

Sounds like a bug to me.  Concatenation of adjacent string literals
is supposed to conceptually occur after all preprocessing is complete.
(Concatenation is in translation phase 6, preprocessing is phase 4.)



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