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From: martini@heaven7.UUCP (Martin P. Ibert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Comments solicited re: quoted constants
Message-ID: <3151020@heaven7.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 90 19:57:50 GMT
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In <16527@haddock.ima.isc.com>, karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>$ But I did invent a neat hack that avoids the problem in a fairly clean
>  manner:   switch (s[0]*'\1\0'+s[1]*'\0\1') { case 'xy': ... }   should work
>  with any sane implementation of SCCs, regardless of byte size and sex.

No, it shouldn't. Siamese character constants in itself are evil and non-
portable. (I'm sure my compiler barfs at them.) My advice: Forget it.
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