From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:38:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Numeric constants as strings
Message-ID: <7virdy8p25.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200702190916.35813.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm working on bringing my hash width literals patch up to
> date now that 1.5.0 has passed.  It's all been trivial apart
> from one line:
>
> #define HASH_WIDTH_ASCII 40
> -               printf("%-40s %s%s (%d subtrees)\n",
> +               printf("%-" HASH_WIDTH_ASCII "s %s%s (%d subtrees)\n",
>
> This compiles, but I suspect that it's not going to do what I
> want it to do.

Doesn't writing "foo" "bar" (two string literals next to each other)
tell the compiler to concatenate them?