compiler chokes on 1986th #define

[Stephen J. Friedl]

Chantal Eide writes:
<
< When compiling a file with a large number of '#define's on our AT&T
< 3B2 machine I encountered the following error message:
<
<	too much defining

Jim Shankland writes:
<
< This business of small, static buffers in the days of virtual memory
< is a blight on various UNIX implementations; in my experience, AT&T is
< one of the worst offenders.

AT&T has made a lot of effort to remove these static limits in
various pieces of software, and it would not surprise me if they
have an official policy on this somewhere.

I believe that this specific cpp limit will be fixed in the C
compiler provided in System V Release 4.0.

     Steve

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