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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Making re-#includes harmless--a simple solution?
Message-ID: <6809@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 13 Dec 87 13:05:16 GMT
References: <2000@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <385@doug.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <385@doug.UUCP> tim@doug.UUCP (Tim J Ihde) writes:
-I don't know if this is in the ANSI definition of include or not, but this
-is exactly how the latest version of cpp on System V works.  It simply
-remembers each include file that it has read and will ignore it if the same
-file shows up again.  This is definatly the way to go.

It definitely is NOT the way to go, and they're going to have to fix it
before they can be ANSI conformant.