#Ansi Codes from 'C'
03-Sep-90 23:47:21
Sb: #118949-#Ansi Codes from 'C'
Fm: Mike Spille/Manx 71545,1466
To: Michael Haynie 72017,1030
Incidentally, hex character constants can pretty much go on to infinity
(well, there are some limits). ANSI didn't say 8 bits or 16 bits or 32
bits, they just said keep goin' till you hit something which isn't
hexadecimal. IMHO this is pretty messed up, as almost anybody ever using
hex char constants now has to use string concat or other tricks to get
around this 'feature'. If octal constants are already constrained to the
size of a char, I don't see why hex constants can't be (er, actually octal
is always 8bits I think).
-Mike