Question on backslash in string in define

[Henry Spencer]

In article <2480 at polari.UUCP> 6sigma2 at polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
>If I have the following:
>
>#define STR "12\
>34"
>char *x = STR;
>
>what should x point to? "1234", "124", "hello world" :-), or is it
>undefined?

It is perfectly well defined.  The backslash-newline sequence vanishes
completely before anything else is done.  x points to "1234".
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