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From: ralf@reswi.ruhr.de (Ralf E. Stranzenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: CC Bug discovered ?
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.202808.20420@reswi.ruhr.de>
Date: 27 Jun 91 20:28:08 GMT
References: <1991Jun27.014104.17845@reswi.ruhr.de> <1991Jun27.053909.9592@kithrup.COM>
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sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>In article <1991Jun27.014104.17845@reswi.ruhr.de> ralf@reswi.ruhr.de (Ralf E. Stranzenbach) writes:
>>It's late, but it seems that I discovered a cc bug. 

>Very unlikely.

>>If I replace defined(BSD)
>>with defined(NeXT), everything works OK. Is this a CC / CPP bug or
>>simply an error in the NeXT documentation ?

>Well, it would indicate to me, with about, oh, less than a second's worth of
>thought, that BSD is not defined by the system compiler.  If the
>documentation says it is, and it isn't, then that is an error in the
>documentation.  If you do a 'cc -v <whatever>', and there is a '-DBSD'
>somewhere on the line shown for cpp, then, and only then, would I say that
>it is a compiler (actually preprocessor) bug.

If the documentation say it is defined AND the system looks like bsd
the compiler should have the BSD Symbol defined. If it's undefined IT
IS A BUG.

Ralf
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