What does the compiler think I am doing here? (C bite?)

[Joe Chapman]

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[ The discussion concerns putting statements like ``37;'' into your C
code.  I'm addressing the claim that no known compilers will generate
code for this statement. ]

Well, I once worked with a C compiler on a 68000 which interpreted
statements consisting of a single number as 68K code.  It was really
great!  You get stuff which looks like this:

	printf("hello, world!\n");
	i++;
	0x00ff12;
	if (i > 3) {

And so forth.  There was even a kernel include file which declared
spl0 & co. like this:

	#define spl0()	0x0012345

Or whatever it was.

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