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Article #938Re: (fairly minor) non-bug in Microsoft C V6
From: Mark Gleaves
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 1990 20:32
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 1990 20:32
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In article <1829@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, I wrote...
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> Here's a fun little bug that I just discovered in Microsoft C V6.0.
>When I run the following:
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> printf("Question marks: '??'");
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>I get the following output:
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> Question marks: '^
>
> It's not quite what I expected.
Thanks to all of you who pointed out that ??' is a valid trigraph under the
ANSI C standard. I just wish I would have known that before I wrote all
those programs using MSC 5.1. Live and learn...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ns-mx!vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu From: cmdglv@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (Mark Gleaves) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: (fairly minor) non-bug in Microsoft C V6 Summary: That's not a bug, it's a feature! Message-ID: <1837@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 11 Jul 90 20:32:04 GMT References: <1829@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Sender: news@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Reply-To: cmdglv@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu Followup-To: <1829@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Organization: Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination Lines: 26