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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Historical question about backquote (`)
Keywords: BCD constant, `, gcos
Message-ID: <14430@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 12 Nov 90 13:18:14 GMT
References: <874@jonlab.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <874@jonlab.UUCP> jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie) writes:
>	illegal gcos BCD constant: line NNN

Yes, there was support for GCOS BCD constants in the Reiser CPP.
I think the code supporting them should be disabled in UNIX environments.