Re: deprecated FOUR_CHAR_CODE and macintel
Re: deprecated FOUR_CHAR_CODE and macintel
- Subject: Re: deprecated FOUR_CHAR_CODE and macintel
- From: "Andy O'Meara" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:48:57 -0500
- Thread-topic: deprecated FOUR_CHAR_CODE and macintel
If you can reproduce it in a sample project (which it sounds like you can
pretty easily), you should submit this as a bug. I believe it was Confucius
that once said, "if you don't submit an Apple bug report, it was never
said."
Andy
On 1/20/06 1:55 PM, "Lawrence Gold" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Lawrence Gold wrote:
>
>> On Jan 12, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Andy O'Meara wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, every compiler I've ever seen, even back into the Win16 days,
>>> multi-char literals are just a convenience representation for for hex
>>> literals (left to right denotes most sig to least sig). Lawrence,
>>> perhaps
>>> you're just misspeaking? ( 'APPL' >> 24 ) will get you 'A' no
>>> matter if
>>> you're on MSVC, CW, gcc, or you name it. The only exception I've
>>> ever heard
>>> of is that Borland used to have a compiler option where char
>>> literals are
>>> understood to read from least to most sig.
>>
>> Well I'll be damned, it seems to be working correctly now, at least
>> for a little test I put together. I'll have to look into this
>> further, because I swear the byte order was reversed when I first
>> look at it. It'd be really nice to get rid of the ugly macros. :-)
>
> And to follow up, it turns out there is a problem, but only for a
> special case. One of our constants is
>
> '\0\0\e\0'
>
> which ends up being stored in the wrong order. Regular constants with
> characters in all the positions work fine.
>
>
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