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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: __STDC__ defined as zero a problem
Message-ID: <9114@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 89 21:21:16 GMT
References: <225800190@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <942@alzabo.UUCP>
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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In article <942@alzabo.UUCP>, tris@alzabo.UUCP (Tris Orendorff) writes:
>      I believe that people actually want to say:
> #ifdef __STDC__
> and not
> #if __STDC__

What people want to say is
	#if __STDC__ - 0
which will work if __STDC__ is undefined.
It will also work on outre systems where __STDC__ is defined to be 0.
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