From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,alt.sources
Subject: Re: Small introspective program
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.164627.20530@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 91 16:46:27 GMT

In article <1991Mar13.001423.5194@Think.COM> dm@think.com (Dave Mankins) writes:
>You start the program (e.g., ``foo.c'') with:
>
>#ifdef notdef
>  cc $0 -g -o `basename $0 .c` -Ineeded-includes -lneeded-libraries 
>  exit;
>#endif notdef

It is no longer legal to put arbitrary trash after "#endif", so that
identifier has to go.  "#endif /* notdef */" is better.

Note also that you need to be careful about what you put inside #ifdef,
because it is *not* completely ignored.  The above example should be okay,
but in general the contents have to be either legal C tokens or things
that could not be mistaken for C tokens.  Notably, an unmatched ' or " is
not kosher.
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