Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:27:31 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weird error messages from __COPYRIGHT macro Message-ID: <25466.966454051@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:25:14 %2B0200." <200008161925.VAA01138@grimreaper.grondar.za>
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:25:14 +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > ...and it does not like the multi-line string. You may need to > double-escape the \n's (like \\n) to get them into the .ident > line symbolically. > > (I just checked - it worked!) Now we just need someone with a NetBSD box handy to let us know whether double-escaping the newlines works alright there. I have a feeling it won't, which probably means we need to see if we can fix our implementation of __IDSTRING(). I've sent private mail to Peter, who introduced this implementation of __IDSTRING in rev 1.26 of cdefs.h. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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