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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: pre#defined cpp symbols
Message-ID: <855@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 03:20:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 03:20:25 1987
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>> [You can find out pre#defined cpp symbols with] `strings /lib/cpp`.

> [...], 'strings /lib/cpp | grep vax' on a 4.3 system won't show 'vax'
> as being predefined, but it is.

This is most likely because by default, strings doesn't mention strings
shorter than four characters.  This is to reduce noise strings cause by
random concatenations of bytes that happen to represent printable
characters.  (You can change this to, say, three by using "strings -3").

					der Mouse

				(mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp)