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NULL-ESCAPE

Treats a 0x00 character in the source file as an escape character for other non-printable characters in the source code.

Syntax:

>>-.---.-.----.—NULL-ESCAPE---><  
   +-/-+ +-NO-+

Parameters:

None.

Properties

Default: NULL-ESCAPE
Phase: Syntax check
$SET: Any

Comments:

Some systems allowed you to embed control characters in the source as if they were escaped by a null character. Use NONULL-ESCAPE if you embed single 0x00 characters in literals in your source code. This replaces the previous option of COBSW=-N.

Alternatively, use x"00" syntax to represent null characters in your literals or z" literal syntax to end a literal in a null character.

Parent topic: Compiler Control - Compile/Link Files
Parent topic: Compiler Directives - Alphabetical List
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