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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: How can I find out cc or cpp symbols?
Keywords: cpp, cc, macros
Message-ID: <12950@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 3 May 89 17:58:53 GMT
References: <1954@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1938@csuna.csun.edu>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <1938@csuna.csun.edu> abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott Neugroschl) writes:
>I am also interested in finding out about what are the "manifest defines" ...
>I like the suggestion for #dump "file".  Did anyone suggest this to the X3J11
>committee?

If so, the Committee was right to reject it.  This is essentially a compiler
debug flag, which has no business being embedded in the language.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint