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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Shifting question
Message-ID: <12638@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 88 15:10:41 GMT
References: <705@bnr-rsc.UUCP> <11556@steinmetz.ge.com> <11606@steinmetz.ge.com>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <11606@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com
(William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>reading the [draft proposed X3J11 C] standard certainly seems to
>say [that sizeof is allowed in preprocessor expressions] at this time.
>... If sizeof is NOT legal in preprocessor directives, then the standard
>should be clarified, ...

It is explicitly disallowed in one tiny clause in the second most recent
draft.  (I have not yet had time to look at the most recent draft.)
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