[Tfug] C Compiler string limitations?

[Robert Hunter]

> I'm curious if anyone has had any experiences with
> compilers choking on long strings/byte arrays.
>
> I have some data structures that look like:
>
> "..." ## "..." ## "..." (etc)
>
> and, in the interest of portability, would hope that
> few compilers would gag on them.

C89 requires a minimum string literal size of 509
C99 requires a minimum 4095

That said, both gcc and msvc will handle much larger string literals ( I
tested up to 8000 ).

-- 
Rob