From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Meissner To: Aparna Ranish Cc: "gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org" , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: trigraphs ???? Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 09:40:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010705123957.B13188@cse.cygnus.com> References: <20010705071553.30734.qmail@mailweb29.rediffmail.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00074.html On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:15:53AM -0000, Aparna Ranish wrote: > Hi > Can somebody tell me what is the usage of trigraphs ??? Is it supported by > all the Compilers. It is required to be supported by all ISO standard compilers. The usage of trigraphs is to work around problems where some characters in the C source character set aren't available in the local character set (ie, some varients of ISO 646 in other countries use the same byte value for curley braces and other characters). -- Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group) PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA Work: meissner@redhat.com phone: +1 978-486-9304 Non-work: meissner@spectacle-pond.org fax: +1 978-692-4482