Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ANSI Parsing/Preproc questions
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.164050.6822@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <383@goya.dit.upm.es> <5689@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 90 16:40:50 GMT

In article <5689@stpstn.UUCP> lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman) writes:
>#define macro(X) vari/**/X
>...
>I don't know if this is "official" K&R or not, but it worked on a lot
>of machines...

It was never K&R-sanctioned.  Indeed, the detailed semantics of the
preprocessor were very fuzzy until ANSI C nailed them down.

And it worked on "a lot of machines" only so long as those machines were
all using PCC, with the Reiser preprocessor.  It generally did not work
with independently-implemented compilers.
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