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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: You _CAN_ "stringize" tokens in (some) K&R pre-processors
Message-ID: <15677@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 2 Apr 91 22:11:04 GMT
References: <323@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> <18148@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <18148@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> volpe@camelback.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe) writes:
>I thought just about all K&R1 based compilers expanded formal arguments
>within quotes, so the following would work:
>#define STRINGIZE(x) "x"

No, in fact K&R1 says that the argument must not be replaced within
string literals in the replacement string.

The behavior you cite is a long-standing bug in the Reiser CPP that
was shipped with UNIX for many years.