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From: grogers@convex.com (Geoffrey Rogers)
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Subject: Re: trouble with macro`s
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.174114.15994@convex.com>
Date: 17 Mar 91 17:41:14 GMT
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In article <1991Mar16.213446.20392@NCoast.ORG> catfood@NCoast.ORG (Mark W. Schumann) writes:
>You could try
>
>  #dfine name2(a,b) a/**/b
>
>This might work, but I am not sure whether K&R compilers strip
>comments before or after evaluating macros.  Try it.

Yes this works on some not all pre-ANSI cpp. Another to do the
same thing is:

   #define name2(a,b)	name2_(a)b
   #define name2_(a)	a

this also works. But I do not know if it works on all pre-ANSI cpp.


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