Multichar literals

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 11/12/2010 11:28 PM, Rainer Deyke wrote:
> On 11/12/2010 20:02, bearophile wrote:
>> In this language a single quote can encompass multiple characters.
>> 'ABC' is equal to 0x434241.
>
> I seem to recall that this is feature is also present in C/C++, although
> I can't say that I've ever used it.
>
>

Oh wow.

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void main(void){
     int i = 'ABC';
     printf("0x%x\n", i);
}

yields:

0x414243

And that's backwards from what I would have expected