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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: <7531@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 23 Mar 88 21:13:14 GMT
References: <11879@brl-adm.ARPA> <4099@hoptoad.uucp> <7309@brl-smoke.ARPA> <983@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <983@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
>The statement in 12.1 of Appendix A says that "Text inside a string or
>a character constant is not subject to replacement.", but they don't
>make it clear whether they mean replacement of macros with their
>expansions or all replacement arising from the preprocessor.

You're the first person I've encountered who doesn't take that
sentence IN CONTEXT to mean what I said.  Every AT&T compiler
person I've consulted (which is several) have agreed that the
Reiser CPP incorrectly implements this aspect of K&R.  Certainly
X3J11 thinks so.