[mercury-users] carriage return escaping

[Michael Day]

> So what _is_ your system?  What C compiler?  If a UNIX-like system,
> did you use "od -c" to inspect the output, or what?

Linux 2.2.16 using gcc 2.96.

> Control-M is the ASCII/ISO 646/ISO 8859/ISO 10646 control character
> "Carriage Return".  Can't think of any ASCII-based system where \r
> wouldn't be Control-M.

Hmm. So it would appear that the string getting passed into io__write is
okay, and is merely being displayed incorrectly. However, comparing "\r"
and char_to_string('\r') does not succeed, so I'm not sure what's going
on.

Michael


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