Re: Wide characters and GCC

[Michael Hayes <m dot hayes at elec dot canterbury dot ac dot nz>]

Joseph S. Myers writes:

 > The C and C++ front ends (at least) presume that a STRING_CST contains a 
 > series of host bytes, each of which corresponds to exactly one target 
 > byte.  This is inappropriate; you can specify \x12345678 in a string 
 > constant and this should represent a target byte with that value, if 
 > target bytes are wide enough.

While chars are stored as 32-bits on the C4x there is an underlying
assumption that only the 8 LSBs are significant.  Since sizeof(char)
= sizeof(short) = sizeof(int) on the C4x, you generally would use an
int type to store larger constants.

Michael.