translation phases

Colin Plumb ccplumb at rose.uwaterloo.ca
Sun Feb 24 15:54:21 AEST 1991


>In article <12696 at darkstar.ucsc.edu> daniel at terra.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson) writes:
>>char msg[] = "\\
>>t";

gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) wrote:
> Assuming the ASCII code set, the effect of the initializer is:
>	msg[0] = 9;
>	msg[1] = 0;
>
> I suspect there are so-called "ANSI C" compilers in existence that
> get this wrong.

Just for the record, gcc gets it right.
-- 
	-Colin



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