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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI -> K&R translator
Keywords: ANSI prototypes
Message-ID: <3637@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 29 Aug 90 09:21:20 GMT
References: <907@attila.WEITEK.COM> <3619@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <FRI5NYC@xds13.ferranti.com>
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Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <FRI5NYC@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> 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"?).

The M4 I *really* use is Ozan Yigit's PD version, modelled on Sys V M4.
In System V M4 and the PD one, you can say
	define(M4__dnl,defn(`dnl'))undefine(`dnl')M4__dnl
The files I posted are the totally stripped down BSD versions.
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