Multibyte character literals

[tommy]

Pelle, can you please add support for multibyte character literals?

[tommy]

For instance: 'char' -> 0x72616863

[Pelle]

You mean something like this?

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int f(void)
{
   return 'abcd';
}


If so: probably - and only because MSVC seems to support it (I find it completely useless myself...)

Pelle

[tommy]

No, I mean like:

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if (*(int*)ptr == 'shor' && *(ptr+4) == 't') { ... }
It would be useful (e.g. in string comparisons) instead of writing 'shor' as :

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's' | ('h'<<8 ) | ('o'<<16) | ('r'<<24)
or writing it as a hexadecimal value... You see?

[Pelle]

Same difference...

Pelle