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From: ath@helios.prosys.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: how widespread is this cpp bug?
Keywords: cpp whitespace bug
Message-ID: <313@helios.prosys.se>
Date: 5 Dec 88 07:18:34 GMT
References: <49179@pyramid.pyramid.com>
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In article <49179@pyramid.pyramid.com> markhall@pyramid.UUCP (Mark Hall) writes:
> [deleted stuff about "prin/* ... */tf" feature]
>
>Does your cpp have this `feature'?  Anyone know the history?  I
>suspect that AT&T and SUN know about this, but have chosen not to fix it.
>Anyone know why?

The first release of Norcroft ANSI C compiler for the Acorn Archimedes
did not have it. The second release supports it as an option. The help
text says something about PCC compatibility ...



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