[perl #60632] [TODO] codingstd: No line splitting in CONST_STRING

[Bernhard Schmalhofer]

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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
# 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.

[Chromatic]

I believe chromatic has gone one step further and made this a build
error.
If so, then we can close this ticket.

I concur.

-- c