Declaring Pascal-style strings in C

Question

In C, is there a good way to define length first, Pascal-style strings as constants, so they can be placed in ROM? (I\'m working with a small embedded system with a non-GCC

Answer 1

GCC and clang (and possibly others) accept the -fpascal-strings option which allows you to declare pascal-style string literals by having the first thing that appears in the string be a \p, e.g. "\pfoo". Not exactly portable, but certainly nicer than funky macros or the runtime construction of them.

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