Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: #ifs and their corresponding #endifs -- in same file?
Message-ID: <1989Apr20.193209.19874@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <335@edg1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 19:32:09 GMT

In article <335@edg1.UUCP> jsa@edg1.UUCP (J. Stephen Adamczyk) writes:
>Anyone care to venture an opinion or whether or not the pANS requires
>that an #if (or the like) be closed by a corresponding #endif in
>the SAME source file?

If you look hard at the grammar for the preprocessor, it is fairly clearly
the grammar for a *single* file.  Everybody I know of who has studied the
matter closely has concluded that #if-#endif must match within the same file.
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