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From: ron@brl-sem.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Value of x?
Message-ID: <705@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 17:57:34 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-sem.705
Posted: Tue Mar 31 17:57:34 1987
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Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab
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In article <6570@brl-adm.ARPA>, @relay.cs.net> writes:

> In the Microsoft C compiler V4.0, '\x' is compiled as 0 on the
> grounds that it's a brain-damaged version of '\x00'.  This is what
> Microsoft's support group said when I reported what I thought was a 
> bug.  I claim that '\x' is a perfectly fine representation of the 
> character x and should have value 120 base 10.  How sayeth INFO-C?

Neither \x meaning 0 nor \x meaning 'x' is correct.  There is no meaning
to \x and those who use it are asking for trouble.  By your own admission
\n should be the character n which we all know is not true.