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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Quote without comment on char constant expansion
Message-ID: <7665@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 12 Apr 88 13:16:28 GMT
References: <4418@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4418@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>this is from the system 5 assert.h:
>	#define assert(EX) if (EX) ; else _assert("EX", __FILE__, __LINE__)

AT&T of course will be fixing this when they release their ANSI-conforming
C language subsystem.  For now, they cheat just like everybody else who
uses a Reiser preprocessor, because they have no alternative.

>so, i suspect gcc is quite wrong.

No, GCC is correctly implementing this aspect of C, both K&R (as
interpreted by most C language lawyers) and ANSI.