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From: cmdglv@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (Mark Gleaves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: (fairly minor) bug in Microsoft C V6
Keywords: Microsoft C V6, bug
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Date: 11 Jul 90 14:31:09 GMT
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Organization: Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination
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      Here's a fun little bug that I just discovered in Microsoft C V6.0.
When I run the following program:

                       #include <stdio.h>
                       void main() {
                          printf("Question marks: '??'");
                       }

I get the following output:

                       Question marks: '^

     It's not quite what I expected.  And it breaks a whole series of 
programs I have that use quoted question marks within strings :(

P.S., Does anybody else out there resent being patronized, belittled, and
disbelieved when they try to report a bug to Microsoft Technical Support?

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