Re: String literals and wide_string literals - how?

[Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>]

"Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:

> Simon Wright wrote:
>>
>> Well, on a PowerPC Z is 2#00001111# but I suspect you'd get a
>> different answer on a little-endian machine ..
>
> Actually, that's on a PowerPC with your specific compiler. Another
> compiler might give a different result for the same
> target. 2#00110011# is a perfectly acceptable result. That's why
> this kind of thing, while interesting, is not very useful.

It may not be useful but in some applications it's essential to know.

And it seems to me that a compiler that thought 2#00110011# was
acceptable probably wouldn't itself be acceptable.