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- From: quanstro@lars.StOlaf.edu (goon)
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- Subject: Re: gcc-cpp chokes: bug or feature?
- Message-ID: <QUANSTRO.92Aug18093959@lars.StOlaf.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 14:39:59 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: wkaufman@us.oracle.com's message of Sat, 15 Aug 1992 05:20:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.052021.26476@oracle.us.oracle.com> wkaufman@us.oracle.com (William Kaufman) writes:
- Well, it's got to check for an #endif, right? The #endif here
- doesn't count, but it does have to look at it,... This one: "
-
- #endif
-
- " doesn't count either, because it's contained in quotes: it's a
- character literal, not a preprocessor directive. Neither is: /*
-
- False. This is not legal input to cpp. Cpp cannot deal with a multiline quote
- because lines are significant and separate preprocessor tokens (not C tokens).
-