On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 20:19, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I agree. C89 requires support for \x escapes in character
> strings and constants, and gnulib assumes C89, so let's
> leave this one alone. Even in the 2005 thread that you cited, the
> bottom line was "You don't stand a prayer with the Bundled
On 01/01/2011 10:14 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> So that compiler did not understand '\a'.
quotearg.c used to support pre-C89 compilers that did not understand
'\a', using a configure-time test for HAVE_C_BACKSLASH_A, but that
support was withdrawn in 2002, because we were assuming C89 compilers
by
Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Wow. This is a gigantic bug that I don't see documented
> anywhere.
I can't reproduce it with the "cc" compilers I have access to right now.
But it was apparently seen on HP-UX 11: [1] mentions a warning
cc: "quotearg.c", line 275: warning 30: Character constant contains unde
