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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Laser C bug  (also: GNOME)
Message-ID: <4158@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 88 14:41:24 GMT
References: <4057@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1198@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: Yes it IS a bug!

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Some people have alerted me to the fact that K&R do NOT include &&, ||, etc
in the ops allowed in a "constant expression", so Laser C not allowing
"#if (A && B)" is not a bug.  I still think it is, since:

	1)  (A && B) is just as CONSTANT as (A & B), so it must be
		an oversight on the part of K&R.

	2)  the logical ops are explicitly included in the draft ANSI
		standard C.  This is 1988, not 1978!
		Laser C supports many other things that are not in
		K&R (e.g., enum), so why not support this relatively
		trivial thing?

	3)  other compilers that I use allow the logical ops in #if,
		including UNIX compilers and Turbo C.  Thus, my code
		is held at a low common denominator by Laser C!

BTW, it is 4 weeks past the time that Megamax claimed they finally GOT the
Laser C manual, and I STILL don't have it.  Oh well, it's probably in the
mail (3rd class)...

- Moshe Braner

PS Re: GNOME.  I've been told that when you ftp (into tcgould.tn.cornell.edu)
you are at ~ftp, so you need to "cd pub/gnome" to find GNOME.  Warning: the
"alt_chars" array structure in "help.c" is defect since the chars that should
have the MSB set don't.  If you want to compile on the ST or MS-DOS I suggest
you ftp the "source.arc" file and download it first.