# Re: Regression: Spurious "^A" in UML output

- From: Andreas Schwab \<hidden\>
- Date: 2012-08-16 14:32:34 
- List: linux-um
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-um/2012/08/3909465
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-kbuild/2012/08/3909465/t.md

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Joe Perches [ref] writes:

> Perhaps it's better to change the um STR macro instead

The STR macro is only used to turn the expansion into a C string to be
parsed by the compiler.  The real problem is that the expansion now
contains spaces, which makes the output ambigous.

Andreas.

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