Problems with GCC and/or VAX LINK
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Fri Mar 17 02:58:41 AEST 1989
In article <1732 at levels.sait.edu.au> ccdn at levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL) writes:
>... A program section which is
>conditionally _not_ compiled should be treated like a comment -- it
>shouldn't matter what's inside the #ifdef/#endif.
ANSI C disagrees with you, for moderately good reasons: scanning for
#endif is a non-trivial process and demands some small degree of structure
in ifdefed-out material.
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