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From: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] "ridiculous benchmarks"-r-us
Date: Fri,  9 Jan 2004 19:37:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18c5384aab5bf87a417792ace0ff6a09@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c71039b7879150ec3be79083e35a82f9@borf.com>

 > This is sort of off topic, but sort of on topic.  Is the following
 > legal C89 (or C99) code?

 > #ifdef notdef
 > 	Why won't this work?
 > #endif

Not really legal (Ken's off-brand cpp).

#ifdef ... #endif wants tokens, and the ' is unmatched.

Try it with /bin/cpp .

	Dennis


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-10  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-09 17:42 mirtchov
2004-01-09 17:47 ` ron minnich
2004-01-09 18:19 ` Icarus Sparry
2004-01-09 18:37   ` mirtchov
2004-01-09 20:25     ` Sam
2004-01-09 20:29       ` Charles Forsyth
2004-01-09 20:44         ` Sam
2004-01-09 20:44         ` Brantley Coile
2004-01-10  0:37           ` Dennis Ritchie [this message]
2004-01-09 20:48         ` mirtchov
2004-01-11  1:02     ` [9fans] 'ridiculous benchmarks'-r-us Joel Salomon
2004-01-09 18:52   ` [9fans] "ridiculous benchmarks"-r-us Brantley Coile
2004-01-09 20:06     ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-01-10  5:06     ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-09 19:40 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2004-01-09 20:54 ` Atanas Bachvaroff

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