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From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: quotes inside #if 0
Message-ID: <2050@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 7 Sep 89 09:41:21 GMT
References: <2014@munnari.oz.au> <14512@haddock.ima.isc.com> <2023@munnari.oz.au> <1989Sep6.163608.20143@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Sep6.163608.20143@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> >the only C
> >compiler I've ever come across (I've used about a dozen) that complains
> >about it is the only one I've used that tries to be ANSI-compliant.
> 
> This is coincidence.  Let me guess -- most of those dozen were Unix
> compilers, right?

I guessed wrong about what the books didn't way (#if 0 is no good).
You guessed wrong about what I didn't say (which compilers).
Not all UNIX compilers are PCC, either.  I've used four that weren't.
Is Apollo's C a PCC?