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From: nagel@beaver.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: LSC 3.0 preprocessor bug
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Date: 22 Apr 89 20:53:53 GMT
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A friend recently was modifying the source to a program by using
#ifdef's to delineate between MAC and other systems.  He erroneously
used code like the following:

#ifdef MAC
code...
#elsif whatever
code
#else
code...
#endif

The problem here is that LSC doesn't support #elsif.  However, the
compiler accepted the program and just generated wrong code.  I assume
it *should* have given an error along the lines of 'illegal
preprocessor directive.'

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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