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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: __STDC__
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Date: 6 Jul 89 05:09:57 GMT
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In article <12378@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:

-	if(strcmp(name, "__STDC__") == 0 || strcmp(name, "__LINE__") == 0 ...)
-		{
-		error("illegal re#definition of %s", name);
-		return ERROR;
-		}
-
-in the preprocessor.

Maybe just if (strncmp(name, "__", 2)) ...
After all, the name subspace beginning with "__" belongs to the
implementation.

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