Summary of Constants

 

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constant`:
floating-point-constant

integer-constant

enumeration-constant

character-constant

floating-point-constant:
fractional-constant exponent-part optfloating-suffix opt

digit-sequence exponent-part floating-suffix opt

fractional-constant:
digit-sequence opt.digit-sequence

digit-sequence  .

exponent-part:
e  sign optdigit-sequence

E  sign optdigit-sequence

sign: one of
+ –

digit-sequence:
digit

digit-sequence digit

floating-suffix: one of
f l F L

integer-constant:
decimal-constant integer-suffix opt

octal-constant integer-suffix opt

hexadecimal-constant integer-suffix opt

decimal-constant:
nonzero-digit

decimal-constant digit

octal-constant:
0

octal-constant octal-digit

hexadecimal-constant:
0x  hexadecimal-digit

0X  hexadecimal-digit

hexadecimal-constant hexadecimal-digit

nonzero-digit: one of
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

octal-digit: one of
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

hexadecimal-digit: one of
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

a b c d e f

A B C D E F

unsigned-suffix: one of
u U

long-suffix: one of
l L

character-constant:
' c-char-sequence

'L' c-char-sequence '

integer-suffix:
unsigned-suffix long-suffix opt

long-suffix unsigned-suffix opt

c-char-sequence:
c-char

c-char-sequence c-char

c-char:
Any member of the source character set except the single quotation mark ('), backslash (\), or newline character escape-sequence

escape-sequence:
simple-escape-sequence

octal-escape-sequence

hexadecimal-escape-sequence

simple-escape-sequence: one of
\a \b \f \n \r \t \v

\' \" \\ \?

octal-escape-sequence:
\ octal-digit

\ octal-digit octal-digit

\ octal-digit octal-digit octal-digit

hexadecimal-escape-sequence:
\x  hexadecimal-digit

hexadecimal-escape-sequence hexadecimal-digit

Lexical Grammar

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