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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: macros with parameters in MSC 5.0
Message-ID: <7288@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 19 Feb 88 01:47:50 GMT
References: <11879@brl-adm.ARPA> <2631@haddock.ISC.COM> <898@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <898@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
>  Does this imply that a macro parameter will nolonger be expanded in
>strings too?

Yes -- it never was supposed to be expanded, according to K&R specs.
The Reiser C preprocessor did anyway, though -- that's a bug.