Re: lcc first experience

On May 7, 4:51=A0pm, nembo kid <u...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Morris Dovey ha scritto:
>
> > My application (written in standard-compliant C, of course <g>) ****ted
> > without any change and ran without any problem.
>
> Try do declare a define something like:
>
> unsigned char a =3D 0b1000000;
>
> With lcc-win works...with other compilers (i.e. mingw32-gcc) no...you
> must use hexadecimal 0xF0 or decimal 128.

You mean 0x40 or decimal 64?

>
> Why this?

0b-syntax doesn't exist in standard C.

This actually tells you an awful lot about C and C programmers.

Implementing binary literals must take all of 10 minutes in a
compiler, but has rarely been done and is not part of any standard.

And it's not that it's never used; it just that C programmers prefer
to use ugly macros to writing straight code. Otherwise I'm sure a way
of writing binary constants (computers are binary, and C is low-level)
would have been standardised long ago.

Or, C programmers say to use hexadecimal instead!

lcc-win32 appears to have this 'extension' (if it's even that because
it's so trivial to implement), the problem being that the code won't
then compile anywhere else.


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Bartc