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Article #5516Re: __STDC__ and non-strictly conforming ANSI C compilers
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1988 22:24
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1988 22:24
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In article <14134@oberon.USC.EDU> blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes: >>There >>really ought to be a way for a program to specify that a predefinition >>of a particular identifier is expected. > >#ifndef FROBUZ > ??= error FROBUZ must be pre-defined! >#endif No, you miss the point. What I was saying was not "there ought to be a way for a program to insist that a predefinition is required" but "there ought to be a way for a program to tell the compiler that a predefinition is legitimate and does not mess up the program". -- "God willing, we will return." | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology -Eugene Cernan, the Moon, 1972 | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.std.c Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: __STDC__ and non-strictly conforming ANSI C compilers Message-ID: <1988Dec19.222419.4773@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <3236@pegasus.ATT.COM> <9167@smoke.BRL.MIL> <12643@bellcore.bellcore.com> <9187@smoke.BRL.MIL> <11005@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <9199@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1988Dec18.043804.907@utzoo.uucp> <14134@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 88 22:24:19 GMT