Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: __STDC__ and non-strictly conforming ANSI C compilers
Message-ID: <1988Dec19.222419.4773@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 88 22:24:19 GMT

In article <14134@oberon.USC.EDU> blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes:
>>There
>>really ought to be a way for a program to specify that a predefinition
>>of a particular identifier is expected.
>
>#ifndef FROBUZ
>    ??= error	FROBUZ must be pre-defined!
>#endif

No, you miss the point.  What I was saying was not "there ought to be a
way for a program to insist that a predefinition is required" but "there
ought to be a way for a program to tell the compiler that a predefinition
is legitimate and does not mess up the program".
-- 
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