Strings in C (Re: ambiguous ?)

[Peter da Silva]

In article <2522 at munnari.oz.au> ok at cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
> C provides direct
> syntax for literals of only one type, but as I showed above, it isn't
> hard to come up with macros to declare named constants of the other
> types.

In most Macintosh C compilers that I've seen, the syntax !"%p...."! is
used to indicate byte-counted strings. P stands for "pascal".

Was X3J11 aware of this? Or are the Mac compiler vendors going to change?
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