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From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Subroutine layout in C
Message-ID: <eZ4N4#1ozoyq=eric@snark.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 15:14:58 GMT
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In <1130@goofy.megatest.uucp>, djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
> I am starting a definitive (ahem) collection of SLMs. This has the
> distinction of being the first.

SLM = Silly Little Macro? :-) Here're two more that I use:

#define	const	/*empty*/	/* on non-ANSI compilers */
#define public	/*empty*/

This latter goes with

#define private static

I may drop `forward' though.
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