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From: mustard@sdrc.UUCP (Sandy Mustard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A solution to the multiple inclusion problem
Summary: Iinclude files
Keywords: #include c
Message-ID: <926@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 21:50:59 GMT
References: <14240@well.UUCP> <1989Oct23.191634.6345@cs.rochester.edu> <14790@bfmny0.UU.NET>
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Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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A solution to multiple include file inclusion that I propose would be:

#exit

thus you could write:

#ifdef this_h_file
#exit
#define this_h_file
...
#endif

The preprocessor/compiler on seeing the #exit directive could ignore everything
following it in the file (and could simply close the file.)

Sandy Mustard
mustard@sdrc.UU.NET