Re: [avr-gcc-list] C Escape sequence.

[Joerg Wunsch]

As dimax un wrote:

> The plain old ANSI C has option of putting octal numbers in strings
> like \ooo.

> For example: "Hello\007World" is actually: {'h' 'e' 'l' 'l' 'o' 0x07
> 'W' 'o' 'r' 'l' 'd' 0x00}

> It is less nice but much more portable.

It is similarly (un)portable.  As of ANSI C89/ISO C90, the octal
escape sequence doesn't end right away after three digits but only at
the first non-octal character (or end of string), just like the
hexadecimal escape sequence.  Hence there are still situations where
you might have to split up the strings -- only less likely since the
valid range for octal digits is less than half the range of valid
hexadecimal digits.

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