Multi-character constant warnings

According to the standard (§6.4.4.4/10)

The value of an integer character constant containing more than one character (e.g., ‘ab’), […] is implementation-defined.

long x = '\xde\xad\xbe\xef'; // yes, single quotes

This is valid ISO 9899:2011 C. It compiles without warning under gcc with -Wall, and a “multi-character character constant” warning with -pedantic.

From Wikipedia:

Multi-character constants (e.g. ‘xy’) are valid, although rarely useful — they let one store several characters in an integer (e.g. 4 ASCII characters can fit in a 32-bit integer, 8 in a 64-bit one). Since the order in which the characters are packed into one int is not specified, portable use of multi-character constants is difficult.

For portability sake, don’t use multi-character constants with integral types.

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