Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Behavior of #error preprocessor directive
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.011940.26586@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1192@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 1991 01:19:40 GMT

In article <1192@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin) writes:
>Is use of the #error preprocessor directive required (or permitted) to
>halt compilation of a source module...

Permitted but not required.  The whole area of response to errors is outside
the scope (as eventually decided) of the standard.  It is legitimate to
write a C implementation which crashes your machine as soon as any error
message is produced, although you may have trouble convincing anyone to
buy it...
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