Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: Strings: escape sequence to insert arbitrary hex value ?

[David Kelly]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:13:37AM -0700, Chris Kuethe wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Schwichtenberg, Knut
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > As far as I know hex values won't work as expected but octal does!
> >
> > I used:
> >
> > static char s46[] __attribute__ ((progmem)) =  "Hei\342gas";            /* 
> > 46 */
> >
> > which is written as "Hei?gas" on an LCD.
> 
> As far as I know, hex values do work... because I tried that program
> before pasting it. But some people prefer octal escapes...

Odds are that is an avr-gcc patch and not standard gcc. Am more certain
the support of entering binary values is an avr-gcc enhancement because
I see the patch file in the FreeBSD port.

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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