try assigning te value to a string seperately and pass the pointer to that
string instead of passing the string   and see if it wrks
Alok


-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Botkin [mailto:dale@BOTKIN.ORG]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 7:01 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: [OT]: C syntax question


Hi,

I'm a newcomer to C, and there are a lot of things I simply don't
understand yet - so I usually avoid them.  However, I'm trying to port
some code from one compiler to another.  It was written for Hi-Tech C, and
I use CC5Xfree.  I'm getting one error message I can't seem to work
around, and I don't know what exactly the problem is.

There is a function defined like so:
void MakePacket(unsigned int packet, unsigned char code, unsigned char
num, unsigned char *str){...}

and later on the program tries to do this:
MakePacket(LCP,REQ,number,"\x0E\x02\x06\x00\x0A\x00\x00\x07\x02\x08\x02");

(Yes, that is from AN721, and yes, I'm trying to bit-bang IP...) The
compiler says:

MakePacket(LCP,REQ,number,"\x0E\x02\x06\x00\x0A\x00\x00\x07\x02\x08\x02");
                          ^------
Error C:\PROGRA~1\MPLAB\PPPTEST.C 430: Syntax error (or limitation)

I've tried it with quotes (as it originally was), without the quotes, with
single quotes, parentheses, etc. with no luck.

Now, I realize I'm using a free version of CC5X or I could just email for
support.  I'm getting close to making a decision to actually buy a
compiler, but I don't want to buy all of them, since I do this for fun and
they're not cheap. That's why I need to figure out now if one or another
is going to be a limiting factor as I learn more about C.  So, that's why
I'm asking here -- is there something I'm not aware of that will make this
work, or does CC5X simply not support this type of thing? I've looked
through the docs and a couple of C/C++ books and not found anything to
shed any real light on this, though I admit I've spent a limited time with
the books so far.

Thanks,

Dale
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