C grammar

Jeff Lee jeff at gatech.UUCP
Wed Feb 20 03:55:13 AEST 1985


> The diff below shows how one might change scan.l in order to improve
> the parser's behaviour. I am not sure about the + . Are multi-character
> character constants permitted by the new standard? (I hope not.)

Yes. In the new standard, multicharacter character constants are allowed
but (of course) are implementation defined. A character constant is an INT
so you can guess what most implementations will do.

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