Small introspective program

Henry Spencer henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Fri Mar 15 05:38:03 AEST 1991


In article <DQ.90AA at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Better make the indicated changes or watch it barf on a strict ANSI
>compiler.
>
>! #ifdef notdef /*

Why?  That is legal, strict ANSI C he had inside the #ifdef.

In general you can't get away with arbitrary trash in there, but nothing
he did was improper.  (If you're upset about the $ and `, they are
unlawful only when transformed from preprocessor tokens to real tokens,
and that never happens in this case.)
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