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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: trouble with macro`s
Message-ID: <15485@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 15 Mar 91 20:30:24 GMT
References: <27489@netcom.COM> <RJOHNSON.91Mar14111149@olorin.shell.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <RJOHNSON.91Mar14111149@olorin.shell.com> rjohnson@shell.com (Roy Johnson) writes:
>Instead of ##, use an empty comment: /**/
>I've tried it, it works.  Document it somewhere if the code is going
>to move.
>Feel free to correct me, but don't preface your correction with "BZZT!"

BONG!

Sorry, I couldn't resist..

The /**/ kludge is not supposed to "work" (i.e. accomplish token pasting).
However, in some implementations it does.  It cannot work in any standard
conforming implementation, however.