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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Mark Williams C
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Date: 27 May 89 01:33:40 GMT
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In article <8530@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
>Defining __STDC__ as zero is a very reasonable way of telling a program that
>you don't comply with the standard.

But not nearly as reasonable as undefining it completely, which would work
with *both* "#if" and "#ifdef", and which would be consistent with all the
compilers that were written before X3J11 invented the __STDC__ symbol.

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