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Re: ANSI C spec and GNU C preprocessing

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From: Quentin Barnes
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 23:50
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In <1992Apr9.213900.26576@urbana.mcd.mot.com> qbarnes@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Quentin Barnes) writes:

>I have a few questions about the ANSI C spec (X3.159-1989 section
>3.8) and how an ANSI C preprocessor should behave. 

>We are using GNU C's preprocessor and as far as I can tell from the
>ANSI C spec, it does not follow it on the items below.

[stuff deleted]

Thank you all for the quick replies.

My questions arose from having to analyze a commerical C and C++ 
test suite.  Apparently the test suite writers were even more
confused than I was over the ANSI spec.

-- 
Quentin Barnes
qbarnes@urbana.mcd.mot.com | ..!uiucuxc!udc!qbarnes
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Subject: Re: ANSI C spec and GNU C preprocessing
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