Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: George Neuner Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Why does the lexer convert text integer lexemes to binary integers? I thought that lexers should be simple? Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:01:39 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 10 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <22-07-034@comp.compilers> References: <22-07-011@comp.compilers> <22-07-015@comp.compilers> <22-07-020@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="5330"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: design, errors, comment Posted-Date: 17 Jul 2022 21:07:20 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:3128 On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:52:20 -0400, George Neuner wrote: >0x101010 is 8 characters, 1 byte. Duh! Of course that should be b101010, 7 characters and not representable in C. Oh well. George [It's a perfectly good integer but I think we're done beating the dead horse. -John]