What's the size limit for a GCC macro expansion?

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From: Elizabeth Schwartz
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:21

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Does anyone know what the limit is, in GNU C, of the size of
a set of pre-processor macro expansions? It appears to be greater than 
16k and less than 64k. 

By this I mean if I write: 
#define FOO(A,B) BAR(A,B) BAR(A,B)
#define BAR(A,B) FRED(A,B) FRED(A,B)

and so on....how big can the result be?  

Thanks, Betsy
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