Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: #endif <name> ???
Message-ID: <1989Oct4.204146.11781@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <JFR.89Oct4133101@tel3.tel3.tel.vtt.fi>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 20:41:46 GMT

In article <JFR.89Oct4133101@tel3.tel3.tel.vtt.fi> jfr@tel3.tel3.tel.vtt.fi (Jim Reilly) writes:
>... The `#endif sparc`
>never caused any complaints on the sun's normal C compiler, but our
>'Designer C++' compiler doesn't like it.  Is this just something
>funny with the c compilers on the SUN ?  At least I didn't find
>it in any C or ANSI C manuals around here.

Many Unix implementations have historically permitted putting any sort
of garbage after `endif', but neither K&R nor ANSI C has ever endorsed
putting anything but a comment there, and many compilers not derived
from the original Unix ones are fussier about this.
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