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GNU Info (g77-295.info)Character and Hollerith ConstantsCharacter and Hollerith Constants --------------------------------- To avoid the extensive hassle that would be needed to avoid this, `f2c' uses C character constants to encode character and Hollerith constants. That means a constant like `'HELLO'' is translated to `"hello"' in C, which further means that an extra null byte is present at the end of the constant. This null byte is superfluous. `g77' does not generate such null bytes. This represents significant savings of resources, such as on systems where `/dev/null' or `/dev/zero' represent bottlenecks in the systems' performance, because `g77' simply asks for fewer zeros from the operating system than `f2c'. (Avoiding spurious use of zero bytes, each byte typically have eight zero bits, also reduces the liabilities in case Microsoft's rumored patent on the digits 0 and 1 is upheld.) automatically generated by info2www version 1.2.2.9 |