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From: browns@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Compiler under Unix System VR4
Message-ID: <1462.271af085@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 16:35:33 GMT
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In article <14132@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <3159@unisoft.UUCP> rembo@unisoft.UUCP (Tony Rems) writes:
>>One more thing.  Although I haven't confirmed this, it seem that 
>>the #if #machine construct *is* ANSI, but that gcc is not 
>>entirely ANSI (even with the -ansi option).
> 
> Would you guys please quit cluttering the net with wild guesses?
> "#if #machine(...)" cannot be used in a strictly conforming C program.
> That is why I say that that whole approach is a botch.  It's intended
> specifically to aid in porting across environments, but it interferes
> with porting to most environments!

I thought things like this were why the gods gave us #pragma !?

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