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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: context-independent macros
Message-ID: <593@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 15:24:29 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.593
Posted: Tue Feb 12 15:24:29 1985
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Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Organization: North Coast Programming, Cleveland
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Summary: 

The problem with

#define mac(args) (st1, st2, ..., stn)

is that any true C statement (as opposed to expression -- I am talking
about if, while, for, break, continue, return, do, ...) will produce
a syntax error.

Brandon (bsa@ncoast.UUCP)
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