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From: moose@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: strange behavior of the C preprocessor
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.175941.8182@svc.portal.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 17:59:41 GMT
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In article <9060@helios.TAMU.EDU> cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick) writes:
>Does this appear to be a bug in the C preprocessor to you?

Yes, but it is NOT a bug.


>#define ABC abc
>#define XYZ xyz
>ABC.XYZ

>inspection of testcpp.out revealed that the file
>contained
>	abc .xyz
>and NOT 
>	abc.xyz


That is correct.  That is ANSI not traditional preprocessing.  
Check out the ## token pasting.
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