Has anyone noticed that compiling POV-Ray 3.5 with gcc 2.953 on Linux
(possibly older versions also show this) results in 18060 warnings of
the kind

warning: multi-character character constant

Of course this is only a cosmetic problem and does not affect the
compiled program, but I'm curious why there are multi-character
character constants in a program like POV-Ray - which aims to be highly
portable - in the first place.

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"Timon Christl" <chr### [at] umbrielfmiuni-passaude> wrote in message
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> Of course this is only a cosmetic problem and does not affect the
> compiled program, but I'm curious why there are multi-character
> character constants in a program like POV-Ray - which aims to be highly
> portable - in the first place.

POV does not use them in a non-portable way, so if you can, just turn those
warnings off.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> POV does not use them in a non-portable way, so if you can, just turn those
> warnings off.

  Which happens by specifying -Wno-multichar

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