Can C preprocessor handle #include "fooa" "foob"

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From: Ernest Prabhakar
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:53

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There is a funky trick which works under the 3.0 NeXT preprocessor, but not  
under GNU 2.1 or 2.2.  It is:
#include "string1" "string2"
which resolves to:
#inclue "string1string2"
Which is then referenced for the include file.

Now, I'm not savvy enough to understand exactly what the ANSI C preprocessor is  
supposed to guarantee.  Does stringification take place before includes?  Then  
GNU is broken.  Is it the other way around?  Then NeXT's preprocessor supplies  
(and thus NeXT include files rely upon) non-standard behavior.  Could someone
perhaps shed some light on this for me?

- Ernie P.
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Ernest N. Prabhakar                  Caltech High Energy Physics
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