http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45399
--- Comment #4 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-11-08 12:26:16 UTC --- The motivating examples in the original raw strings proposal are for simplifying regular expressions and HTML markup, there's no mention of binary blobs. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2053.html