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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Strings in C (Re: ambiguous ?)
Message-ID: <6676@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 25 Oct 89 16:19:48 GMT
References: <11398@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14115@lanl.gov> <2522@munnari.oz.au>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <2522@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
> C provides direct
> syntax for literals of only one type, but as I showed above, it isn't
> hard to come up with macros to declare named constants of the other
> types.

In most Macintosh C compilers that I've seen, the syntax !"%p...."! is
used to indicate byte-counted strings. P stands for "pascal".

Was X3J11 aware of this? Or are the Mac compiler vendors going to change?
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