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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: __STDC__ and non-conforming ANSI C compilers
Message-ID: <9370@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Jan 89 12:46:34 GMT
References: <898@ubu.warwick.UUCP> <179@smsdpg.uu.net>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <179@smsdpg.uu.net> seg@smsdpg.uu.net (Scott Garfinkle) writes:
>You just can't say "#if __STDC_", you have to use #ifdef
>(or "#if defined()").

You got that exactly backward.

>In SVR4 cc, it *always* defines __STDC__, but sets it to 0 if you tell it you
>want "old-style C."

That's the same problem as was reported for MicroSoft.
SVR4 hasn't been released yet; perhaps they will fix this before release.