Re: Hole in preprocessor support of Obj-C?

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From: Josh DuBois
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:00

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In comp.sys.next.programmer article <3355731A.24A@vnp.com> you wrote:
>...
> 
> The workaround is to surround your NSString constructor with
> parentheses.  The preprocessor treats parenthesized expressions as
> indivisible chunks, but not expressions surrounded by square brackets.
> 
		Howdy, 

		Yeah, I'm aware of the workaround, but I'd rather not have  
to do that.  I didn't figure next would have fixed it, but I was hoping a  
newer version of gcc might have addressed the problem.  

		maybe I'll download the latest version & try it;)
			(might it be possible to replace the preprocessor  
I'm using with an updated version of the gcc preprocessor if it's fixed  
there?)

			take it easy & thanks, 

				Josh.

> 
> Josh DuBois wrote:
> > 
> >         Hey, there -
> > 
> >                 someone here just noticed what looks to me like a hole  
in
> > gcc's preprocesor support for Obj-C.  We're trying to implement a  
macro
> > for exception raising...

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From: duboisj@gondolin.is.com (Josh DuBois)
Subject: Re: Hole in preprocessor support of Obj-C?
Date: 1997/04/17
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