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In article <1557@cwruecmp.UUCP> bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi) writes:
>
>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:
>#define BROKEN(x)	putc('x', stdout); putc('\n', stdout)
>	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.

A compiler that substitutes for parameters within either kind of
quote will violate the current working draft of the X3J11 committee
of ANSI.  The Reiser pre-processor (used in most UNIX systems) does
do this substitution.  It is safest not to write anything that would
be treated differently by these interpretations.

Hugh Redelmeier (416) 922-1937
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