gcc 4.3 warnings

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 19:49 -0700, Skunk Worx wrote:
> $ gcc foo.c
> foo.c:1:16: warning: missing terminating " character
> 
> $ cat foo.c
> #define DQUOTE "
> main() {}
> 
> A few people at work have mentioned it seems unusual for a preprocessor 
> to complain about simple macros this way.
> 
> What do others think of this?

A macro definition has to consist of a sequence of tokens.  A string
constant (sequence of characters enclosed in double quotes) is a token,
but the double quote by itself is not.

If you are trying to construct strings containing macro defs, look at
the stringize operator (#) and token merge operator (##)in the
preprocessor documentation.

> 
> TIA,
> John
> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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