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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc,comp.os.vms,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problems with GCC and/or VAX LINK
Message-ID: <12360@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 06:54:48 GMT
References: <18426@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1732@levels.sait.edu.au>
Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb)
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ccdn@levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL) wrote:
> Mind you, this is still a problem.  A program section which is
> conditionally  _not_ compiled should be treated like a comment -- it
> shouldn't matter what's inside the #ifdef/#endif.

Yes, it should.  In particular, consider the string:
"This\n\
is a test\n\
of\n\
#endif\n"

Even though the characters "#endif" appear at the beginning of a line,
they should not be treated as a preprocessor directive.
-- 
	-Colin (uunet!microsoft!w-colinp)

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