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From: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] "ridiculous benchmarks"-r-us
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Date: Fri,  9 Jan 2004 19:37:34 -0500
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 > 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