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From: quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Macro names imbedded in pp-numbers [repost]
Summary: #define F_LIMIT (0x14e)
Message-ID: <1989Nov17.205004.19236@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 20:50:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1989Nov17.205004.19236
References: <11134@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <15217@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1643@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz)
Organization: University of Rochester, Department of Computer Science
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In <1643@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) wrote:
| 	#define F_LIMIT	0x14e
| 
| 	/* and later in the program */
| 	long error_count[F_LIMIT+5];	/* room for quadrant totals */

Aside:  Over-parenthesizing your defines for paranoid reasons would
have saved this program.  Of course, the criticized behavior remains
buggy in the general case.



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                                      Cesar Augusto Quiroz Gonzalez
                                      Department of Computer Science
                                      University of Rochester
                                      Rochester,  NY 14627