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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problems with GCC and/or VAX LINK
Message-ID: <1989Mar16.165841.20887@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <18426@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1732@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 16:58:41 GMT

In article <1732@levels.sait.edu.au> ccdn@levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL) writes:
>... A program section which is
>conditionally  _not_ compiled should be treated like a comment -- it
>shouldn't matter what's inside the #ifdef/#endif.

ANSI C disagrees with you, for moderately good reasons:  scanning for
#endif is a non-trivial process and demands some small degree of structure
in ifdefed-out material.
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