From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:51:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (get_funky_string): Use '\a', rather than 7, for portability to EBCDIC hosts.
X-Git-Tag: CPPI-1_12~1242
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e49f13c2cf694ef0bda70d6f7f5e590bc4ec64ce;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(get_funky_string): Use '\a', rather than 7, for portability to EBCDIC hosts.
---

diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 4f268e76c4..1e61f41681 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -1950,7 +1950,7 @@ get_funky_string (char **dest, const char **src, bool equals_end,
 	      num = 0;
 	      break;
 	    case 'a':		/* Bell */
-	      num = 7;		/* Not all C compilers know what \a means */
+	      num = '\a';
 	      break;
 	    case 'b':		/* Backspace */
 	      num = '\b';