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Re: warning: string length greater than '509'

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Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> wrote:
>> Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>  warning: string length '1008' is greater than the
>>>>  length '509' ISO C90 compilers are required to support
>>> 
>>> Compile with: -Wno-overlength-strings
>>
>>Who knew??? So I took a look at  man cc  and also found
>>-std=gnu99 which also works. Weirdly, though, -std=c99,
>>which seems equivalent as described on the manpage,
>>emits about a dozen new warnings, including some
>>"obviously wrong" (meaning they could be right?) ones
>>like "implicit declaration of function 'popen'", even
>>though stdio.h is included. (Note: I haven't actually
>>tested the executable images created using either switch,
>>and certainly not looked for any differences in the
>>generated instructions.)
> 
> 
> As others have pointed out, gnu99 leaves a bunch of commonly used GCC
> extensions enabled.
> 
> A word about C99 mode (with or without extensions), though.  If C99
> support is a reasonable prerequisite for the targets you're intending
> to port to (or if you're writing strictly for the local machine), by
> all means, go ahead and use that, there are certainly some useful
> additions to the language (and also a few changes).
> 
> But while C89/C90 has been officially superseded by C99 (or actually
> C11 as of a couple of weeks ago), there are a significant number of
> compilers in the world that have not fully implemented C99 (or any of
> C99) while still providing a full C89 implementation.  MS's standard
> compiler falls into that category, for example, as do many compilers
> for embedded targets.
> 
> So if you intend a port to Windows, you'll have to use a compiler
> other than MSVC if you use C99 features.  If I understand the
> situation correctly, Jacob Navia, who has posted in this thread, has
> produced such a creature, and would apparently be willing to sell you
> a license.  The GCC ports for Windows should work too, as would
> Intel's ICC.  But there are certainly some advantages to using MSVC
> for Windows development.

Thanks for the additional info. C89 should work fine for everything,
except the silly long string initialization. And although I usually
try to code in completely portable ansi standard C, this particular
program is pretty much Unix only. Maybe I should clarify, it's the
gpl'ed program http://www.forkosh.com/mathtex.html  that recently
got that silly long string due to the enhancement
http://www.forkosh.com/mathtex.html?valignment  which vertically
aligns emitted images precisely ("middle" or "absmiddle" doesn't
usually do a decent job). And since it's a one-line build, I don't
provide any configure/make-type script, just instructions what to
put on the cc line. And I won't bother adding -std to that. But I
occasionally get email about -pedantic warnings from sticklers, and
so try to eliminate them when it's feasible and reasonably easy.
This time it apparently ain't, so the heck with it. The 4095 limit
pointed out by Jacob Navia is quite more than I actually need,
so there's no actual problem, just the pesky message. And I hoped
there might be a tricky way to easily accomplish the equivalent
initialization without raising the warning. But I'm not materially
changing the code just to deal with it.
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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warning: string length greater than '509' JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2011-12-23 10:01 +0000
  Re: warning: string length greater than '509' jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-12-23 11:19 +0100
  Re: warning: string length greater than '509' pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-12-23 05:49 -0500
    Re: warning: string length greater than '509' jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-12-23 13:52 +0100
      Re: warning: string length greater than '509' Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-28 03:27 -0800
        Re: warning: string length greater than '509' James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-28 08:16 -0500
        Re: warning: string length greater than '509' Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-28 13:04 -0800
          Re: warning: string length greater than '509' Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-25 16:47 -0800
    Re: warning: string length greater than '509' JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2011-12-23 13:04 +0000
      Re: warning: string length greater than '509' Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-23 09:36 -0500
  Re: warning: string length greater than '509' Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-23 04:59 -0600
    Re: warning: string length greater than '509' JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2011-12-23 12:41 +0000
      Re: warning: string length greater than '509' jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-12-23 13:50 +0000
      Re: warning: string length greater than '509' James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-23 09:14 -0500
      Re: warning: string length greater than '509' Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-23 12:27 -0600
        Re: warning: string length greater than '509' Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-23 19:04 +0000
          Re: warning: string length greater than '509' Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-23 16:11 -0600
        New C standard (was Re: warning: string length greater than '509') Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-23 12:21 -0800
          Re: New C standard (was Re: warning: string length greater than '509') Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2011-12-23 22:54 +0100
          Re: New C standard (was Re: warning: string length greater than '509') Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-23 16:27 -0600
          Re: New C standard (was Re: warning: string length greater than '509') rudolf <r.thered@gmail.com> - 2011-12-23 15:36 -0800
          new edition of Harbison and Steele? Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2011-12-26 18:57 -0800
            Re: new edition of Harbison and Steele? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-27 02:48 -0800
              Re: new edition of Harbison and Steele? Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2011-12-27 11:45 -0800
        Re: warning: string length greater than '509' JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2011-12-24 05:42 +0000
          Re: warning: string length greater than '509' Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-24 00:47 -0600
            Re: warning: string length greater than '509' JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2011-12-24 08:51 +0000
  Re: warning: string length greater than '509' Stars and Midnight China Blue <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-23 03:34 -0800
  Re: warning: string length greater than '509' Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-12-23 16:48 +0000

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