This declaration statement used to work.... it would return 3 arguments to a macro.... DEFINE_CONST( LINE_TEXT, // argument 1 \{_TEXT("solid")\,_TEXT("dash")\,_TEXT("doubledash")\,\}, // argument 2 "")” // argument 3 now --- building on Fedora Core 4 with gcc 4.0 the statement breaks each backslash (\) comma (,) into arguments so it now returns 6 arguments which becomes a problem because the macro only expects 3 arguments.... any ideas on how to resolve this. thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Porting-to-Fedora-gcc-4.0--parsing-backward-slash%28%22%5C%22%29-comma%28%22%2C%22%29-t1518915.html#a4123190 Sent from the gcc - Help forum at Nabble.com.