On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 17:38, Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: > >> One tiny improvement of your patches: In C source code, use octal escapes >> instead of hexadecimal escapes. Some platform's cc compiler (IRIX 6.5 or >> HP-UX 10.20 or something like that) supports only octal escapes correctly. > > Wow. This is a gigantic bug that I don't see documented > anywhere. "git ls-files | grep '\.c$' | xargs grep '\\x'" shows > that \x is used many places in the Gnulib tests directory. Do we > need to document this and avoid \x everywhere?
Please don't. It's a big readability loss (i personally cannot decypher any octal sequence on the fly except \177). Could it be the old K&R HP-UX compiler? Paolo
