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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: CPP bug in sun OS cc?? (or ANSI standard interpretation??)
Message-ID: <372@taumet.com>
Date: 2 Aug 90 16:00:46 GMT
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Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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rhl@grendel.Princeton.EDU (Robert Lupton (the Good)) writes:

!#define line LINE
!main()
!{
!#line 1234 "junk.c"
!}
!as the "#line" is treated as "#LINE" -- does ansi allow this??

ANSI C standard section 3.8.3:
"If a # preprocessing token, followed by an identifier, occurs
lexically at the point at which a preprocessing directive could begin,
the identifier is not subject to macro replacement."

In other words, the compiler does not conform to the ANSI standard.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com