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From: mikeg@c3.c3.lanl.gov (Michael P. Gerlek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: How to force cpp to abort?
Message-ID: <MIKEG.90Aug11180036@c3.c3.lanl.gov>
Date: 12 Aug 90 00:00:36 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
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I'm writing some machine dependent code...

#if defined(__convex__)
	(do Convex stuff)
#else
#if defined(cray)
	(do Cray stuff)
#else
#if defined(sun)
	(do Sun stuff)
#else
	(oops)	/* force abort */
#endif
#endif
#endif


Question: if the code is compiled on, say, a Vax, how do I force the
compiler (or perhaps cpp) to abort in the "oops" block above?  Sure, I
could throw in some syntactically bad code and force a syntax error,
but that's not really very clean.  Sure, too, I could conditonally
compile in an fprintf(stderr,"Machine not supported"), but the code
would have to be run - I want to cleanly abort at compile-time.

Suggestions?


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