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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: draft ANSI standard: major, quiet, unnoticed change
Message-ID: <500@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 00:35:08 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  3 00:35:08 1986
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In article <1379@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> #pdefine sun
> 
> would cause #if sun or #if defined(sun) or #ifdef sun to be true, but
> would not replace occurrances of "sun" in program text.

Of course, no one said it had to be a macro definition.  You could
just say
	int	sun;
and the #if defined(sun) would also work.  Of course, it takes up
a few bytes.  Too bad the compiler won't allow me to declare voids.

-Ron