Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Telling csh about multiple, machine-dependent libraries
Summary: #ident and #class
Keywords: csh bin libraries
Message-ID: <953@vsi.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 88 16:36:42 GMT
References: <142@minya.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <142@minya.UUCP>, jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
> Some of these [cpp defines] are obvious.
> I wonder what "class" and "ident" do?

These are products of the AT&T compiler.  #ident is used to put
SCCSID-style info into an object file, and it takes a string
literal. #class was used with `C with Classes', the predecessor
to C++, and it may call up some kind of preprocessor.

     Steve

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