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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Strings in C (Re: ambiguous ?)
Message-ID: <11428@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Oct 89 18:37:06 GMT
References: <11398@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14115@lanl.gov> <2522@munnari.oz.au> <6676@ficc.uu.net> <2421@convex.UUCP> <2742@hub.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2742@hub.UUCP> pete@cavevax.ucsb.edu writes:
>In article <2421@convex.UUCP> grogers@sushi.uucp (Geoffrey Rogers) writes:
>> In article <6676@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>>In most Macintosh C compilers that I've seen, the syntax !"%p...."! is
>Actually, the syntax is "\p...", but that's only a nit I had to pick.

Oh, if THAT's the issue, then it's not a problem.  Any program containing
a  string literal like "\pXXX" has stepped into the Twilight Zone of
"undefined behavior"; the implementation is free to assign a "counted
string" meaning to this if it happens to be useful to do so.