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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: how widespread is this cpp bug?
Keywords: cpp whitespace bug
Message-ID: <9026@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 1 Dec 88 17:59:35 GMT
References: <49179@pyramid.pyramid.com> <6625@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <6625@csli.STANFORD.EDU> wagner@arisia.xerox.com (Juergen Wagner) writes:
>      proc/**/VERSION
>People relying on this bug should change their habits. There are better ways
>to concatenate tokens.

No, for Reiser-based preprocessors there aren't any better ways.
ANSI-style token pasting is fairly new, and many C implementations
in current use do not support it.