From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com>
To: Florian Krohm <florian@edamail.fishkill.ibm.com>
Cc: Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com>, Guillaume <guillaume.thouvenin@polymtl.ca>, Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: fdump-ast-original and strg:
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:24:00 -0000
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X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg01631.html
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On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 10:12 AM, Florian Krohm wrote:

> I'm afraid, things are even a bit more complex.
> Consider a string containing two characters, the first
> of which contains the bit pattern 00001010. The second
> character is '2'. If you want to recover the original
> representation for that string you will have to use a
> string concatenation e.g. "\12" "2" or "\x6" "2".
> Note that you cannot write "\122" as that would specify
> only a single character.

"\0122" works.