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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Recursive Definitions: Trouble or Bad news?
Message-ID: <11272@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Oct 89 02:46:10 GMT
References: <7657@cdis-1.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7657@cdis-1.uucp> tanner@cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
>I should be interested to know the latest ANSI wisdom on a construct
>requesting that token BLUNGE be replaced by itself:
>	#define BLUNGE BLUNGE

That's allowed, and the replacement string's BLUNGE will not be expanded.
However, note that some pre-ANSI C preprocessors may do this differently.