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Re: Octal

From BartC <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Octal
Date 2016-12-28 12:30 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 28/12/2016 12:01, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

>> Maybe Pelles was just slavishly following the behaviour of gcc, rather
>> than doing what makes sense and what users might reasonably expect.
>
> Some users might reasonably expect the compiler to follow the language
> definition.

A language definition that says that a hexadecimal constant that happens 
to end with the digit "e" can't immediately be followed by "+" or "-" 
unless there's an intervening space?

The sounds more like a bug in the language definition.

 From what I can glean from the comments here, numeric constants in C 
are rather sloppily defined by the preprocessor, and it is that rough 
token that the next stage has to pick the bones out of in order to end 
up with something that is a legal hex, binary, octal or decimal number, 
either integer or floating point.

The consequences are that "123ABC" isn't "123" followed by "ABC" (a 
syntax error anyway), but the number "123..." that has the illegal 
suffix "ABC". "1.2.3" isn't 1.2 followed by .3, but one number with two 
many decimal points.

-- 
Bartc

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      Re: Octal "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-27 07:07 -0800
        Re: Octal BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-12-27 15:22 +0000
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