Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!labrea!csli!gandalf From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: how widespread is this cpp bug? Keywords: cpp whitespace bug Message-ID: <6625@csli.STANFORD.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 88 05:04:54 GMT References: <49179@pyramid.pyramid.com> Reply-To: wagner@arisia.xerox.com (Juergen Wagner) Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 28 Sun4 (SunOS 4.0): bug! HP 9000/320 (HP-UX 6.0): bug! VAX 8700 (Ultrix): bug! So I tried one of our old TOPS-20 machines, which happily reported Error at main+4, line 6 of x.c: prin/*comment*/tf( Undefined symbol: "prin" Error at main+4, line 6 of x.c: prin/*comment*/tf( Expected token (semicolon) not found Error at main+6, line 8 of x.c: proc/**/VERSION Undefined symbol: "proc" Error at main+6, line 8 of x.c: proc/**/VERSION Expected token (semicolon) not found ?4 error(s) detected People relying on this bug should change their habits. There are better ways to concatenate tokens. -- Juergen Wagner gandalf@csli.stanford.edu wagner@arisia.xerox.com