Newsgroups: comp.std.c
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Another sizeof question
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.162942.3609@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <13171@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <2638@cirrusl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 90 16:29:42 GMT

In article <2638@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>I was a little surprised to discover that ANSI C tries to allow the
>preprocessor to be separately implementable, but it does not require it
>to be separately available.

Why the surprise?  There is a big difference between "allows" and "requires"
when we are talking about a language that is already in widespread use with
many divergent implementations.
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