How About #define foo foo

[meissner at dg_rtp.UUCP]

In article <6938 at ki4pv.UUCP> tanner at ki4pv.UUCP writes:
> 
> Would it be desirable for the pre-processor to do something similar,
> so that the following construction might work?
> 
> #ifndef	foo
> typedef	int	(*foo)();	/* my fancy type */
> #define	 foo	foo		/* remember that we know it */
> #endif
> 
> Just curious.  Compiler here blows out on the above (expansion too
> big), but I'd be interested to hear of other reactions to it.

This is the proposed ANSI draft.  The rationale for it is to allow a macro
function which calls the real function by the same name.  Reiser based
C preprocessors generally blow up on this.
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