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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI -> K&R translator
Keywords: ANSI prototypes
Message-ID: <FRI5NYC@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 19:53:59 GMT
References: <907@attila.WEITEK.COM> <3619@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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The one problem with M4 is that it's got this annoying tendency to do
replacements that aren't intended (what happens if you have a variable
called "dnl"?). When I did a version of MACRO (m4 in Ratfor) for RSX, I
made all the builtind start with "$".
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