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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: #if inside #define -- easy to do, b
Message-ID: <8722@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 13:39:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  7 13:39:14 1987
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> ... a need for a standard abort-compilation construct...

X3J11 has done this, there is a #error construct.  The Rationale observes:
"The directive #error has been introduced to provide an explicit mechanism
for forcing translation to fail under certain conditions. ... Traditionally
such failure has had to be forced by inserting text so ill-formed that the
translator gagged on it."
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