[U-Boot] Question about Coding-Style

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Chris,

In message <52F8A706.7030103 at free.fr> you wrote:
>
> > 	"abc"
> > 	"def"
> >
> > Is a valid C string, and does not require a backslash. Do I miss
> > something?
> 
> Yes, you are of course correct: the result is the C string "abcdef" and =
> 
> the backslash in the original is superfluous.
> However a grep for "abcdef" in the source code won't match it :(
> This is why splitting strings like this is discouraged in the Linux kernel.

To be precise, the Linux CodingStyle refers to "user-visible strings
such as printk messages".

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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