cpp compatiblity Unix/VMS

[Tan Bronson]

In article <134 at iquery.UUCP> matt at iquery.UUCP (Matt Reedy) writes:
>
<The problem is the following:  I want the same source to compile on both
<SysV and VMS, so I use this style:
<
<#ifdef VAX
<#include file
<#include stdio
<#else
<#include <fcntl.h>
<#include <stdio.h>
<#endif
<
<On the VAX, the '#include file' and '#include stdio' syntax is valid and
<references members of a text library.  However, my 3B2 cpp chokes on these
<lines with 'bad include syntax' even though the symbol VAX is NOT DEFINED.
<
    try this
#ifdef VAX
#define FILE file
#else
#define FILE <fcntl.h>
#endif
#include FILE

    Most people I mentioned this to, were surprised this worked, so
maybe VMS will not allow it (It broke my makefile generator)
~
>Is there an easy workaround?
>
>matt
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