C Compiler under Unix System VR4

[Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems]

In article <14132 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <3159 at unisoft.UUCP> rembo at unisoft.UUCP (Tony Rems) writes:
>>One more thing.  Although I haven't confirmed this, it seem that 
>>the #if #machine construct *is* ANSI, but that gcc is not 
>>entirely ANSI (even with the -ansi option).
> 
> Would you guys please quit cluttering the net with wild guesses?
> "#if #machine(...)" cannot be used in a strictly conforming C program.
> That is why I say that that whole approach is a botch.  It's intended
> specifically to aid in porting across environments, but it interferes
> with porting to most environments!

I thought things like this were why the gods gave us #pragma !?

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