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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: [RFC] String literal length
From: "Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:37:35 +0100 (MET) 
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> In ANSI C89 the maximal length of string literals is 509 chars. ISO
> C99 enlarges this to 4095 chars. The current source code of freeciv
> contains literals larger then 509 chars.
>
> Options:
>  - assume a C89 compiler and change freeciv
>  - require a C99 compiler
>  - leave it and doesn't care about it

What compilers are not C99? Aren't gcc and sun cc the only compilers used
for compiling freeciv?

Yours,
Per

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