Yet another Megamax C bug

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From: bammi
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1986 04:19

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I came across the following bug in Megamax C's pre-processor. It does not
substitute arguments enclosed in single quotes ('x'). My understanding
is that the pre-processor should not substitute arguements in strings
(ie within double quotes (")).

For Example:

#include <stdio.h>
#define BROKEN(x)	putc('x', stdout); putc('\n', stdout)

main()
{
	BROKEN(A);
}

will always print the character x no matter what the argument to BROKEN is.
Alcyon (v 4.14) and Vax (bsd 4.3) print out the character A as i expect.
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From: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Yet another Megamax C bug
Message-ID: <1557@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Aug-86 00:19:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.1557
Posted: Sun Aug 17 00:19:23 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Aug-86 04:40:00 EDT
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Organization: CWRU Dept. Comp. Eng., Cleveland OH
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Keywords: MEGAMAX C PREPROCESSOR