Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: preprocessor fun
Message-ID: <1989Apr11.030603.17890@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Apr7.192628.4547@utzoo.uucp> <10152@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 03:06:03 GMT

In article <10152@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> diamond@diamond. (Norman Diamond) writes:
>>	#ifdef notdef
>>	#hahafooledyou
>>	#endif
>
>The third line is also two preprocessing tokens.  Yup, a vendor can sell
>a compiler that does lots of unexpected things, and point out that it
>conforms to the standard...

Thing is, it would appear that a compiler which *refuses* to compile
this DOES NOT conform to the standard and cannot legitimately claim
compliance.  The above three lines are a strictly conforming program,
containing nothing that is illegal, undefined, implementation-defined,
etc etc.
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