Re: [HACKERS] ECPG and escape strings

Would someone on the interface list look for a fix to this? Thanks.

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Michael Fuhr wrote:
> ECPG seems to be a little overzealous with the new escape string syntax:
>
> % cat foo.pgc
> int
> main(void)
> {
> putchar('\n');
> return 0;
> }
>
> % ecpg foo.pgc
>
> % gcc -I`pg_config --includedir` -c foo.c
> foo.pgc: In function `main':
> foo.pgc:4: `E' undeclared (first use in this function)
> foo.pgc:4: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> foo.pgc:4: for each function it appears in.)
> foo.pgc:4: syntax error before character constant
>
> % cat foo.c
> /* Processed by ecpg (4.1.1) */
> /* These include files are added by the preprocessor */
> #include <ecpgtype.h>
> #include <ecpglib.h>
> #include <ecpgerrno.h>
> #include <sqlca.h>
> /* End of automatic include section */
> #line 1 "foo.pgc"
> int
> main(void)
> {
> putchar(E'\n');
> return 0;
> }
>
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