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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: new instructions
Message-ID: <4711.2843a523@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 29 May 91 17:57:06 GMT
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In article <12526@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
[Herman supplies some of the specifics people have been asking for]

> There are provisions for octal and hex
> integers [in c],

I thought so too, and one day I tried to write an integer constant
in octal.  The compiler said, "Nuts to you!"  It took some hours,
but I finally convinced myself that the compiler manual and then
Kernigan and Ritchie provide octal notation for CHARACTERS.  Nothing
else!  I thought it was a major design flaw and was no accident.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com