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From: hamilton@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C preprocessor: undefined control
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Date: 21 Mar 89 23:27:00 GMT
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dan@rna says:

>  ... The 4.3BSD complains about the #pragma, even though it should be
> excluded entirely since the #ifdef MSDOS is not satisfied:
> 
> #ifdef MSDOS
> 	... C code ...
> #pragma loop_opt(off)
> 	while(...)
> 	...
> #endif
> 
> ... Is there any way around this ? (I know I could write the C code
> such that the #pragma isn't necessary... that's not an answer).

i'd probably but the #ifdef'd C code into a seperate file, and say:

	#ifdef MSDOS
	#include msdos.c
	#endif

	wayne hamilton
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