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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: #error
Message-ID: <15939@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 22 Apr 91 18:12:18 GMT
References: <14793@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <14793@darkstar.ucsc.edu> daniel@terra.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson) writes:
>Therefore, a strictly conforming program may contain #error.

Yes.

>The question is: must a conforming implementation "successfully 
>translate" any strictly conforming program?

The exact requirement is that stated in section 1.7 of ANS X3.159-1989.

Note that encountering of an #error directive does not halt translation;
it merely generates a diagnostic message.