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From: tsu@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Stanley Tsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: spectrum or is it SPECTRUM???
Message-ID: <7410013@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 24 May 88 18:40:44 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Jeff Harrell writes:
>                               Cpp changes "spectrum" to "1"
> and the compiler complains "unexpected 1". 

Jeff, the solution is simple: use the -U option of cc(1) to remove 
the pre-defined definition of a name.

Although "spectrum" is not a keyword, it is pre-defined for releases
up to 3.0.

Thanks go to Tim Pasek in the Computer Languages Lab who had the right
answer.