Re: Another sizeof question

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From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 1990 19:30

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>>I was a little surprised to discover that ANSI C tries to allow the
>>preprocessor to be separately implementable, but it does not require it
>>to be separately available.

>Why the surprise?

Because at the time that ANSI was in the middle of developing the
standard, so far as I could tell, all existing substantially complete
implementations of K&R's C provided a way of doing preprocessing only.

(Actually, VAX/VMS was a near-exception, but then again, VAX/VMS is
*always* a near-exception to *everything*.)
--
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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A pointer is not an address.  It is a way of finding an address. -- me

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