Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Preprocessor macro to quote its argument
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.012839.3545@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1112@mti.mti.com> <1114@mti.mti.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 90 01:28:39 GMT

In article <1114@mti.mti.com> adrian@mti.UUCP (Adrian McCarthy) writes:
>It has been pointed out by several kind folks that this is *not*
>ANSI-compliant.  ANSI preprocessors do the tokenization of the input for
>the rest of the compiler (thus ``preprocessor'' is arguably a misnomer)...

Actually, a good many pre-ANSI preprocessors do this too; X3J11 did not
invent this approach.
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