> because I'm very, very strict about treating warnings as errors) I found 
> that, in the file "povmsgid.cpp", the enumerations were assigned to 
> static strings surrounded by single quotes, which is something I have 
> never seen before [snip]
> I still waswondering what the "goal" of those defines 
> was and if there is something fundamental that I'm missing about the 
> whole affair that is going to bite me in the cheeks later.

	Answer is much shorter than you think: yes you're running into
big trouble messing up with the code like this.
	Search google for "multicharacter constant" and look through
the gcc manpage for the -Wno-multichar warning option.

	- NC


PS: you should really-really wait for the 3.6 UNIX source code  :-)

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