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From: brandis@inf.ethz.ch (Marc Brandis)
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Subject: Re: 10[25]==35? Really?
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Date: 25 Feb 91 14:53:02 GMT
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In article <25694@netcom.COM> avery@netcom.COM (Avery Colter) writes:
>With all this about the #define X1 -10, I find it interesting that
>indexing a constant yields the sum of the constant and the number inside
>the brackets.
>
I could not find a compiler that did it like that. All of them complained
that they expected a variable to be indexed. Some of the compilers were
ANSI (IBM S/6000), some were K&R (Sun 3, Sequent Symetry).


Marc-Michael Brandis
Computer Systems Laboratory, ETH-Zentrum (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
email: brandis@inf.ethz.ch