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Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation

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Kenneth Brody wrote:
> On 6/1/2011 12:59 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> Kenneth Brody<kenbrody@spamcop.net>  writes:
>> [massive snippage below]
>>
>>> On 6/1/2011 12:45 PM, Datesfat Chicks wrote:
>>>> c_main.c(71): error C2064: term does not evaluate to a function taking
>>>> 305 arguments
>>
>>> In other words, it's a function call, with "mystring" (including the
>>> quotes) being the function name/pointer.  Obviously, a string literal
>>> is not a function name/pointer.
>>
>> Any idea why the compiler thinks there should be (or, perhaps,
>> that there are) 305 arguments?
> 
> Perhaps it's a bug in the compiler?

A feature surely? It's issuing a diagnostic, which is all that's 
required of it. The diagnostic is even correct, just not particularly 
helpful.

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Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation Datesfat Chicks <datesfat.chicks@gmail.com> - 2011-06-01 12:45 -0400
  Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation Billy Mays <noway@nohow.com> - 2011-06-01 12:49 -0400
    Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation Datesfat Chicks <datesfat.chicks@gmail.com> - 2011-06-01 13:19 -0400
  Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-06-01 09:50 -0700
  Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-01 12:56 -0400
    Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-06-01 09:59 -0700
      Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-02 11:07 -0400
        Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-02 11:22 -0400
        Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 11:25 -0500
        Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2011-06-02 09:02 -0700
          Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-06-03 10:49 -0400
        Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation "J. J. Farrell" <jjf@bcs.org.uk> - 2011-06-03 01:52 +0100
          Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-02 18:06 -0700
  Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-01 10:07 -0700
  Re: Unexpected Difficulty with String Constant Concatenation Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2011-06-01 13:14 -0500

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