The C-- Language Reference Manual

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TheC-- Language Reference ManualSimon Peyton JonesThomas NordinDino OlivaPablo Nogueira IglesiasApril 23, 1998Contents1 Introduction32 Syntax General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Name scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theimportandexportdeclarations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Integer and floating point numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . Characters and strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 73 Fundamental concepts Memory.

A character constant is treated as an integer whose value is the character’s 8-bit ASCII code. There-fore, character constants have type word1. C--uses C’s escape sequences to denote special charac-ters, such as \nfor the new line and \tfor the tabulator. For example, character constant ’H’is a word1with value 72.

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