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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: gcc 1.34, can't printf "%"
Message-ID: <1263@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 20 Apr 89 08:39:04 GMT
References: <8904192118.AA09440@garnet.berkeley.edu>
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Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Holland
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In-reply-to: rusty@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU

In article <8904192118.AA09440@garnet.berkeley.edu>, rusty@GARNET writes:
 `The following program
 `
 `main() {
 `	printf("\%d\n");
 `}
 `
 `gets the complaint "warning: unknown escape sequence `\%'".  Is there
 `some command-line flag I can use or is this a bug?

Maybe you mean "\\%d\n" or "%%d\n" (depends on your desire to print also
the \).
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Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht
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