[vtk-developers] vtkWrapPython.c: truncated doc strings.

Volpe, Christopher R (CRD) volpecr at crd.ge.com
Fri Nov 9 09:28:42 EST 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prabhu Ramachandran [mailto:prabhu at aero.iitm.ernet.in]
> 
> >>>>> "DG" == David Gobbi <dgobbi at irus.rri.ca> writes:
> 
>     DG> On Visual C++, the maximum length of a string constant is
>     DG> 4096, so that's where I made the cutoff.  The other option was
> 
> Ouch!

You kids and your fancy schmancy modern compilers! When I was a young whipper-snapper the rule was a
C compiler only had to give you 509 characters in a string literal. Only 509 characters, I tell you!
And we were *happy* and *thankful* to have those 509 characters, too! 

:-)

-Chris 



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