Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How to force cpp to abort?
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.174615.22829@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <MIKEG.90Aug11180036@c3.c3.lanl.gov> <17377@haddock.ima.isc.com> <MIKEG.90Aug13092741@c3.c3.lanl.gov>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 90 17:46:15 GMT

In article <MIKEG.90Aug13092741@c3.c3.lanl.gov> mikeg@c3.c3.lanl.gov (Michael P. Gerlek) writes:
>... Can someone tell me why there isn't something
>like an "#abort error-message-here" directive that *would* terminate?

Response to error conditions was generally considered to be a "quality
of implementation" issue outside the province of the standard.  One
might ask why you *want* to do this...
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