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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Telling csh about multiple, machine-dependent libraries
Message-ID: <8940@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 20 Nov 88 02:15:28 GMT
References: <173@heart-of-gold> <14592@mimsy.UUCP> <6490@csli.STANFORD.EDU> <2662@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2662@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>... the MINIX C compiler balks when it sees;
>#ifdef 3b1
>For some reason it doesn't like the '3'.  What we need around here, is a
>'standard'!

"3b1" is not a valid identifier since it doesn't start with a letter or
underscore.

We've been working on the standard.  It won't permit predefined
identifiers unless they start with an underscore or two.