[m-dev.] fixed limits and more fixed limits

[Fergus Henderson]

On 11-Aug-2000, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> The only solution I can think of (apart from shooting the MSVC
> developers, only 2048 measly chars!) is ...

Please send them a bug report, saying that this does not comply with
the current (1999) ISO C standard, which states that for conforming
implementations the limit must be at least 4095, and which recommends 
avoid such limits entirely whenever possible:

 |        5.2.4.1  Translation limits
 | 
 |        [#1]  The  implementation  shall  be  able  to translate and
 |        execute at least one program  that  contains  at  least  one
 |        instance of every one of the following limits [Footnote 13]:
 ...
 |             -- 4095  characters  in a character string literal or wide
 |             string literal (after concatenation)
 ...
 |        [Footnote 13]:
 |           Implementations  should  avoid imposing fixed translation
 |           limits whenever possible.

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