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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: <7677@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 13 Apr 88 23:16:26 GMT
References: <4418@hoptoad.uucp> <3432@haddock.ISC.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3432@haddock.ISC.COM> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>The original problem showed up in BSD <sys/ioctl.h>.  I would recommend that
>this header be fixed as shown by the example below.

The important thing is that this can be fixed NOW -- you don't have
to wait for an ANSI C compliant compiler to apply the suggested fix.
Then when 4BSD switches to an ANSI C compiler this wouldn't break.