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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ECPG and escape strings
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To: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
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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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