Multi-character constant warnings

Question

Why is this a warning? I think there are many cases when is more clear to use multi-char int constants instead of \"no meaning\" numbers or instead of defining const variabl

Answer 1

If you're happy you know what you're doing and can accept the portability problems, on GCC for example you can disable the warning on the command line:

-Wno-multichar

I use this for my own apps to work with AVI and MP4 file headers for similar reasons to you.