Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!tcdcs!swift.cs.tcd.ie!emcmanus From: emcmanus@cs.tcd.ie (Eamonn McManus) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: ANSI -> K&R translator Keywords: ANSI prototypes Message-ID: <1735@tws8.cs.tcd.ie> Date: 2 Sep 90 19:14:07 GMT References: <907@attila.WEITEK.COM> <3619@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <1732@tws8.cs.tcd.ie> Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin Lines: 9 I wrote about System V m4: > `defn' doesn't expand to anything if given a builtin as its argument. and of course I was wrong. In fact it expands to a control character with bit 7 set, which is why I hadn't seen anything when I'd tried it interactively. This is a rather ugly approach, but I suppose it's faster than what I suggested. -- Eamonn McManus Fingers are for fuguing.