It's been a month, but I see that no-one has replied to this in the interim:
 BW>> By fooling around and doing stuff like this...
 BW>>      cout << "Expression /a in hex = " << hex << '/a' << endl;
 BW>> and checking the output, I've realized that Microsoft v 8.00 is
 BW>> 'seeing' this two char constant right-to-left, while Borland sees it
 PH> What two char constant? That's a FUBAR constant. It has no meaning.
Yes it has.  The C++ language has four kinds of character literal:
        'c'         Single character character literal, type `char'
        'ab'        Multi-character character literal, type `int'
        L'c'        Single character wide character literal, type `wchar_t'
        L'ab'       Multi-character wide character literal, type `wchar_t'
The values of both kinds of multi-character literal are implementation 
defined, so they do have a definite meaning (albeit one that varies from 
implementation to implementation).
The code above contains a multi-character character literal.
 ¯ JdeBP ®
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