Re: Looking through multibyte_char_to_unibyte

[Andreas Schwab]

Dmitry Antipov <address@hidden> writes:

> Looking through preprocessed src/character.c, I found the following function:
>
> int
> multibyte_char_to_unibyte (int c)
> {
>   if (c < 0x80)
>     return c;
>   if (((c) > 0x3FFF7F))
>     return (((c) > 0x3FFF7F) ? (c) - 0x3FFF00 : multibyte_char_to_unibyte 
> (c));
>   return (c & 0xFF);
> }
>
> Is this a subtle trick which I just can't understand and explain, or something
> is really wrong with this?

That's the expansion of the CHAR_BYTE8_P and CHAR_TO_BYTE8 macros.

Andreas.

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