Re: Question about ANSI preprocessor

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1989 02:26

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In article <10879@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> diamond@ws.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) writes:
>According to the ANSI standard, does the following code cause
>expansion of the preprocessor macro "huh"?

No, as a general design principle the preprocessor is not required to
back up, apart from the quite limited case of rescanning the
replacement buffer.

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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
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Subject: Re: Question about ANSI preprocessor
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Date: 28 Sep 89 02:26:20 GMT
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