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<P><EM>This is an unofficial snapshot of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG21
  Core Issues List revision 118b.
  See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/ for the official
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<P>2025-09-28</P>
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<A NAME="1024"></A><H4>1024.
  
Limits on multicharacter literals
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<B>Section: </B>5.13.3&#160; [<A href="https://wg21.link/lex.ccon">lex.ccon</A>]
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 <B>Status: </B>CD3
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 <B>Submitter: </B>Alisdair Meredith
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 <B>Date: </B>2010-01-31<BR>


<P>[Moved to DR at the October, 2012 meeting.]</P>

<P>There is no limit placed on the number of <I>c-char</I>s in a
multicharacter literal or a wide-character literal containing
multiple <I>c-char</I>s, either in 5.13.3 [<A href="https://wg21.link/lex.ccon">lex.ccon</A>]
paragraphs 1-2 or in Annex Clause Annex B [<A href="https://wg21.link/implimits">implimits</A>].  Presumably
this means that an implementation must accept arbitrarily long
literals.</P>

<P>An alternative approach might be to state that these literals
are conditionally supported with implementation-defined semantics,
allowing an implementation to impose a documented limit that
makes sense for the particular architecture.</P>

<P><B>Proposed resolution (February, 2012):</B></P>

<P>This issue is resolved by the resolution of
<A HREF="912.html">issue 912</A>.</P>

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