Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!emory!mephisto!prism!gs26 From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: How to force cpp to abort? Message-ID: <12510@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 13 Aug 90 18:10:25 GMT References: <17377@haddock.ima.isc.com> Distribution: comp Organization: Dead Poets Society Lines: 22 In 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... ummmm, maybe 'cause unix jocks are expected to keep up with silly things like defining things in header files? :) Actually, with either a sharp programmer or something like Larry Wall's "configure" script, it's not too hard to have these things taken care of, ergo there *wasn't a need* for such things.... but, alas, with the size and complexity and fuzziness of today's programs.... see also the .sig quote. Glenn R. Stone gs26@prism.gatech.edu Unix. Op Sys with an attitude. Your fault (core dumped). %