Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: preprocessor fun
Message-ID: <1989Apr11.153939.529@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Apr7.192628.4547@utzoo.uucp> <9095@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 15:39:39 GMT

In article <9095@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>The goal is to ensure that when
>
>	#if __STDC__ > 1
>	#directive_present_in_C94_though_not_in_C89
>	#endif /* __STDC__ > 1 */
>
>gets written some time in 1985, the "right thing" happens on pre-'84 compilers.

However, the line about the # punctuator only appearing in preprocessor
directives strongly suggests that this wasn't the intent of the person
who wrote that; the above is legal only through a loophole (# doesn't
have to be a punctuator).  There seems to be some confusion about intent.
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