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From: barrett@meridn.enet.dec.com (Keith Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: SAS/Lattice C
Keywords: define
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Date: 25 Aug 90 13:31:38 GMT
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Well, I looked into the Lattice manual; it appears that the Lattice users guide
states on page G37 that the maximum length of the SUBSTITUTION text for a
#define cannot exceed 512 bytes, so I can see how a long #define might
blow up. It would also be easy to forget that the expanded string could be
longer than the actual #define statement and cause a "hidden" problem. I can
also see how exceeding the compiler buffer limit might trash memory and GURU,
but I agree that very poor and should have been trapped for instead - there's
no excuse for a crash.

See, I can do research.


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