compiler parser problem with the \x escape character

Rabbit
1

Hi,

I am using the command line compiler v8.61 and I have an issue with this code fragment:

1: int foo(char* blah);
2:
3: void foo2(void)
4: {
5: foo(“\xDE\xAD\xBE\xEF”);
6:
7: if ( foo(“\xc0\xff\xee\x00”) )
8: {
9: }
10:
11: }

Line 5 compiles with no problems.

Line 7 complains with the following:
invalid token near line 1 (text was '"')
invalid token near line 1 (text was 'c0')
invalid token near line 1 (text was 'ff')
invalid token near line 1 (text was 'ee')

I seem to have isolated it to the use of a \x escape character in an ‘if’ statement. Is anybody aware of this issue?

Thanks

John Minack
www.xtralis.com

2

This works fine for me in DC 10.54

3

Ok, thanks for the info.

Unfortunately, due to the cost of doing regression testing, we cannot go past version 8.xx.

Two other things I forgot to mention:

  1. I have noticed that these errors don’t come up when I use the IDE, only when I use the CL version.
  2. This is affecting ip.lib, Rabbit’s own library ( see line 1174).
4

seems easy enough to work around,

temp_boolean = foo("\xc0\xff\xee\x00"); 
if ( temp_boolean ) {
   }