preprocessor fun

[Henry Spencer]

In article <10152 at socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> diamond at diamond. (Norman Diamond) writes:
>>	#ifdef notdef
>>	#hahafooledyou
>>	#endif
>
>The third line is also two preprocessing tokens.  Yup, a vendor can sell
>a compiler that does lots of unexpected things, and point out that it
>conforms to the standard...

Thing is, it would appear that a compiler which *refuses* to compile
this DOES NOT conform to the standard and cannot legitimately claim
compliance.  The above three lines are a strictly conforming program,
containing nothing that is illegal, undefined, implementation-defined,
etc etc.
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