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There is no 0b prefix in C11

There is no 0b prefix in C11

Posted Sep 30, 2014 7:47 UTC (Tue) by stefanct (guest, #89200)
Parent article: Little things that matter in language design

The standard allows for compiler-defined extensions (in C99 too btw) and gcc supports a 0b binary prefix, but it is not mandatory and '0b' is not even mentioned explicitly in the standard (at least in the last draft).

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There is no 0b prefix in C11

Posted Sep 30, 2014 14:49 UTC (Tue) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]

Indeed. 0b prefixes are standard in C++14 though, and so are literals with digit-separators such as 1'000'000'000 (the other characters that could have been used were even worse).


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