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From: eager@amd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: cpp bug
Message-ID: <4693@amd.AMD.COM>
Date: Sat, 21-Nov-87 05:51:06 EST
Article-I.D.: amd.4693
Posted: Sat Nov 21 05:51:06 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 23-Nov-87 02:52:00 EST
References: <66@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM>
Reply-To: eager@amd.UUCP (mike eager)
Organization: Eager Consulting
Lines: 22
Summary: Common cpp restrictionn

In article <66@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> hunt@spar.UUCP (Neil Hunt) writes:
>The following fragment is the boiled down version of some lines
>from a C program which was automatically translated from pascal,
>and which breaks the cpp on my machine (a Sun 3, 3.2).
>#define l(a)	1
>
>f()
>{
>	l(
>	a); l(
>	a)
>}




It seems that I remember a restriction in some preprocessors that
requires the entire invocation of a macro to be contained within
a single line.  I looked at Harbison & Steele, but they seem to be
silent on the issue.

-  Mike Eager