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From: cagney@chook.ua.oz (Andrew Cagney - aka Noid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: ANSI C pre processing, The '#' char is valid
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Date: 13 Oct 89 03:47:53 GMT
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Reply-To: cagney@chook.ua.oz (Andrew Cagney - aka Noid)
Organization: Comp Sci, Uni of Adelaide, Australia
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I've been digging arround the ANSI standard some more:

The '#' character is defined as a token. Independant of the directives
hence TURBO-CPP deleting the '#' character is invalid.

So lines like
#define a
		#			define x

are valid and so is

	mov ax, #CLICK_SIZE

The # does not have to be bound to a preprocessing command.

					Andrew Cagney