Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!botter!star.cs.vu.nl!maart From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Atomic #defines (was Re: Password checking program) Message-ID: <3019@solo1.cs.vu.nl> Date: 18 Aug 89 14:23:13 GMT References: <15257@duke.cs.duke.edu> <652@lakart.UUCP> <13569@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <10765@smoke.BRL.MIL> Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Lines: 16 gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: \In article <13569@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes: \... \> #define ERROR (EOF-1) \ \Don't do this. You don't know what EOF might be defined as, so \this might not work right. What should he use instead? #define ERROR (-2) ... might not work either! -- kilogram, n.: the amount of cocaine |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam: you can buy for $100K. |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart