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Re: PCH magic numbers
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:36:04PM -0700, Devang Patel wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 7:19 PM, Phil Edwards wrote:
>
> >How are the 3 characters at the end of the magic string to be
> >interpreted?
> >3-digit decimal number, 2-digit hex with a leading zero, ...? Do the
> >digits
> >have categories like SMTP response codes, or do they just go from 000
> >to 999?
>
> They represent prog. language. C = 0, Objective-C = 1 and C++ = 2.
No, that's the 5th character, and it's ASCII. I'm talking about
the following 3 characters. Look in gcc/c-pch.c:get_ident().
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