Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 08:44:15 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Irritating cpp feature Message-ID: <19980607084415.A261@flarn.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199806070753.AAA04355@antipodes.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 12:53:48AM -0700 References: <199806070753.AAA04355@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 12:53:48AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > #if 0 > This is pointless text with one of ' in it. > #endif [...] > The code obviously builds OK on other gcc-wielding platforms; is there > something funny about our preprocessor? I think there is something correct about our preprocessor. I Don't Have The Standard In Front Of Me (TM) but I think code that is #ifdef'ed out must still be syntactically correct, so the sample that you provided above is incorrect code. If somebody is using #ifdef around English text, that is wrong. Anybody with the Standard care to verify? The only one I have is the reprint of the Library portion of the Standard in Plauger's book. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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