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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
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Subject: Re: How to force cpp to abort?
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Date: 13 Aug 90 17:21:21 GMT
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In article <MIKEG.90Aug13092741@c3.c3.lanl.gov> mikeg@c3.c3.lanl.gov
(Michael P. Gerlek) writes:

| So, academic question: from what I understand, #error isn't guaranteed
| to stop compilation.  Can someone tell me why there isn't something
| like an "#abort error-message-here" directive that *would* terminate?
| Seems like this'd be really useful...

I always use something like:

	int double error;	/* reason */

It's grungy, but it should generate an error on anything that calls
itself a C compiler.
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