Re: [Vala] gross string literals

[Sam Liddicott <sam liddicott com>]

So it looks like vala should not use defines for class static const strings, I'll file a bug report.

Thanks

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: David Given <dg cowlark com>
Sent: 24 June 2008 00:39
To: vala-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Vala] gross string literals

Sam Liddicott wrote:
[...]
> I get uneasy because in some of my cases the string could be a few
> thousand characters long.

C89 decrees that a compiler must support string literals of up to 509
bytes, and C99 decrees 4095 bytes --- it's probably unlikely that anyone
will use Vala with anything other than gcc, though.

(I used a compiler this year that would just plain crash if you tried to
use string literals longer than about 2kB. However, it was quite happy
with very long string *initializers*:

extern char string[];
char string[] = "...long string here...";

.)

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