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From: mlight@hpiacla.HP.COM (Mike Light )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: spectrum or is it SPECTRUM???
Message-ID: <4650004@hpiacla.HP.COM>
Date: 25 May 88 15:40:22 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard
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> The compiler complained every time I called a 
> spectrum a spectrum. 

> The project name for the s800 is "spectrum" and I like my 
> spectrums called spectrum(s). Cpp changes "spectrum" to "1"
> and the compiler complains "unexpected 1". Don't think "spectrum"
> is a key word in "C"??

I don't know why, but "spectrum" comes pre-defined as the constant 1
in /lib/cpp on the 800's.  Fortunately it is easy to get rid of:

When compiling:      cc -Uspectrum etc...

or in source code:   #undef spectrum   /* Zap that mama! */

Let us know how it works!  -- Mike Light.

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