From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: Brantley Coile To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] "ridiculous benchmarks"-r-us In-Reply-To: <473f99eea04976b0758b7170409ea0d8@terzarima.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:44:22 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b61230fa-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 The gcc balks at the single quote. Clearly he's scaning for tokens inside of the ifdef/endif lines. Should he? Brantley