Re: Hex string literals (was Re: C23 thoughts and opinions)

On 18/06/2024 16:21, David Brown wrote:

On 18/06/2024 15:56, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:

On 2024-06-17, bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

AFAIK nobody uses octal anymore.

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Unix shell and C programmers fairly often use octal unintentionally,

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Perhaps you do.   Don't speak for others, please.
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 Others do it too.  Perhaps not "fairly often", but it certainly happens.
 

This has bit me ...
$ ping -c 1 192.168.1.17
PING 192.168.1.17 (192.168.1.17) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.17: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.097 ms
--- 192.168.1.17 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.097/0.097/0.097/0.000 ms
$ ping -c 1 192.168.001.017
PING 192.168.001.017 (192.168.1.15) 56(84) bytes of data.
 From 192.168.1.17 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 192.168.001.017 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms