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In article <SCHWARTZ.89Sep8161603@shire.cs.psu.edu> schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>
>We'll see about the new release (2.1s) as soon as it is installed.  My
>first test program will look like this:
>
>#ifdef __STDC__		/* Oh good, a 100% ANSI conforming compiler! */
>#define FOO(x) #x
>static char foo[] = FOO(bar);
>			/* should expand to ``static char foo[] = "bar";'' */
>#endif
>
>All previous releases of hc get this wrong; they fail to compile it.
>

Actually all releases of hc have had an ANSI preprocessor that handles 
stringizing.  You can disable cpp, and enable the ANSI preprocessor, with the
command-line option -Hnocpp.  See the hc(1) man page for this, -Hcpp, 
and other useful options.

Cpp is the default preprocessor on AOS because we weren't willing,
in 1967, to try to force a nonstandard preprocessor on customers. 
(For one thing, Berkeley source wouldn't preprocess.)  Yet, the language  
supported is ANSI C, so __STDC__ really has to be on.  I should have taken
this inconsistency more seriously; Scott's note is evidence of the confusion
my choice caused.  


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