From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com>
To: tim@hollebeek.com
Cc: Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com>, Florian Krohm <florian@edamail.fishkill.ibm.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 15:02:00 -0000
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On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 03:07 PM, Tim Hollebeek wrote:

>
>> 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.
>
> I believe you can also use "\12\2".

No, that specifies a second character with bit pattern 00000010,
which is not '2'.