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From: cmdglv@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (Mark Gleaves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: (fairly minor) non-bug in Microsoft C V6
Summary: That's not a bug, it's a feature!
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Date: 11 Jul 90 20:32:04 GMT
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In article <1829@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, I wrote...
> 
>      Here's a fun little bug that I just discovered in Microsoft C V6.0.
>When I run the following:
> 
>                          printf("Question marks: '??'");
> 
>I get the following output:
> 
>                       Question marks: '^
> 
>     It's not quite what I expected.

Thanks to all of you who pointed out that ??' is a valid trigraph under the
ANSI C standard.  I just wish I would have known that before I wrote all
those programs using MSC 5.1.  Live and learn...

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