Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/17/00:31:26
Tom Wheeley wrote:
>
> On Sunday, in article <32B457C8 DOT 4940 AT exis DOT net>
> wrightj AT exis DOT net "Joe Wright" wrote:
>
> > Is it worth pointing out that strcpy() doesn't know anything about
> > escapes?
> > It is only when you give it to printf() that things go awry.
>
> Sorry? I thought printf didn't know about escapes either? Maybe I was
> under the mistaken impression that the escapes were `evaluated' at compile
> time by the compiler...
>
You got me there. Of course it IS the compiler that evaluates the '\'
escapes in all cases. I stand corrected and slightly embarrassed.
Joe Wright
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