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From: ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Think C 4.01 bug?
Message-ID: <288@libyan.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 91 01:27:26 GMT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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I've been working on a graphics program for my graphics class, and decided
to use #define statements to define some constants instead of variables that
I set during initialization.

I had two constants, let's call them A and B.  Here is a (cort of) code
fragment:

#define A 0x10000	/* fixed point 1 */
#define B 43875L	/* a fixed point constant I used; this isn't it */

and later:

x = FixMul(A - B,y);

this gave me an unmatched ) error when B was #defined, but didn't when B was
a variable.


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