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From: drw@cullvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Value of x?
Message-ID: <1017@cullvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 13:51:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  2 13:51:17 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 15:30:03 EST
Organization: Cullinet Software, Inc., Westwood, MA
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C Guri:@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?

Well, according to the ANSI draft standard, it's invalid.

Dale
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