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This is similar to the shell single-quote string.  However, escapes
\ are honored before another escape, single quotes '
and hash characters #.  This latter is done specifically
to disambiguate lines starting with a hash character inside
of a quoted string.  In other words,
| fumble = ' #endif '; | 
could be misinterpreted by the definitions scanner, whereas this would not:
| fumble = ' \#endif '; | 
As with the double quote string, a series of these, even intermixed with double quote strings, will be concatenated together.
 
  This document was generated by Bruce Korb on April, 24 2005 using texi2html 1.76.