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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Macro parameters getting substituted into strings
Message-ID: <7646@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 10 Apr 88 08:42:38 GMT
References: <11879@brl-adm.ARPA> <4099@hoptoad.uucp> <7309@brl-smoke.ARPA> <7566@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1039@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 <1039@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
>Then we are faced with a loss of functionality.  Suddenly there is no
>way to define _IO or CTRL that is compatible with existing usage.

There never was a guaranteed way to do this.  Some people found that
they could exploit a bug in the Reiser preprocessor so they did.  I
don't have a lot of sympathy for them, since when I was faced with
this choice I did it the portable way even though I was using only
Reiser preprocessors at the time.