@fay59 @whitequark its because the hex literal is truncated...

@fay59 @whitequark its because the hex literal is truncated to a byte, and then that's your character ?????

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iximeow

8 May at 2:49 | Open on haunted.computer

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8 May at 3:37 | Open on tacobelllabs.net

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@iximeow @fay59 @whitequark good news, it doesn't work with octal

8 May at 3:45 | Open on tacobelllabs.net

@iximeow This is prohibited by the C++ standard, and GCC rejects if you pass "-pedantic -pedantic-errors".

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@iximeow In C this is... implementation-defined I think? https://cigix.me/c17#6.4.5.p6 (last sentence) and https://cigix.me/c17#6.4.4.4.p6

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@iximeow @whitequark ah. yes. that seems "logical" to me, because this is C. pardon my (slightly) gray hair.

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