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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: expressions and #if
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Date: Thu, 19-Jul-84 17:24:35 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 19 17:24:35 1984
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> Contrast smarter and smarter CPP constant evaluation with the approach
> taken in Ada, which is to insist that the compilers optimize out unreachable
> code.  ...

The problem is that this doesn't work at all for declarations.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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