structured entry of #if preprocessor commands

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Mon Feb 11 19:23:27 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb10.063915.5476 at ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsmigie at ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Smigiel) writes:
>Is it common practice not to structure preprocessor commands in ANSI C?

You mean, not to indent them.  The answer is, yes.

>So it seems completely valid to me, I just wanted to know if this was a smart
>thing to do or am I entirely insane?

Many existing (pre-ANSI) C preprocessors are not tolerant of white space
before the #.



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