Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!shell!shell!rjohnson From: rjohnson@shell.com (Roy Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: trouble with macro`s Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 91 15:25:54 GMT References: <15485@smoke.brl.mil> <15506@smoke.brl.mil> Sender: usenet@shell.shell.com (USENET News System) Organization: Shell Development Company, Bellaire Research Center, Houston, TX Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil's message of 18 Mar 91 19:38:12 GMT In article <15506@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: In article rjohnson@shell.com (Roy Johnson) writes: >BZZZT! ;^) The original question asked about how to do it on the Sun, >since the ## which *should* work, doesn't, because sun cc is not ANSI- >compliant. But even if it "works" today, it may stop working tomorrow, as indeed it must do once Sun releases a standard conforming C implementation. Right. *That's* why I told him to document it. Are you suggesting that he shouldn't write code that works because it isn't standard? I suspect he has a job to do. -- ======= !{sun,psuvax1,bcm,rice,decwrl,cs.utexas.edu}!shell!rjohnson ======= Feel free to correct me, but don't preface your correction with "BZZT!" Is it appropriate to post here about what's appropriate to post here? Roy Johnson, Shell Development Company