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Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: Strings: escape sequence to insert arbitrary


From: Vincent Trouilliez
Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: Strings: escape sequence to insert arbitrary
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 19:56:57 +0100

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:32:46 +0200
address@hidden wrote:

> Because there is a rather arcane way to represent characters in which
> three question marks appear prominently.  I recall now that it's
> called "trigraphs".
> 
> Don't look it up, no one in his right mind would take that standard
> seriously.

Too late ! ;-)
Someone off-list, already pointed me to some info about it !!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_trigraph

Indeed it doesn't seem too useful in practice, but I still find it
interesting if just to improve my overall C "culture" ;-)

--
Vince




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