The \c escape

[Bob Larson]

In article <963 at ficc.UUCP> peter at ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>(2) What's wrong with a readable and maintainable way of initialising a
>    32-bit unsigned integer to 0x464F524DL?
0x464F524DL
> You prefer that (or ('F'<<24)| ('O'<<16)|('R'<<8)|('M')) 
> to 'FORM'?

No, I use what I mean.  Are you trying to imply that the three
things you mention have the same value?  (I grant that on some
machines with some compilers they might.  I'm sure on other machines
and compilers they are different.)

Multi-character constants are "implemntation defined" (K&R2 page 193)
thus are for portable code UNDEFINED.

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