__STDC__ and non-strictly conforming ANSI C compilers

[Henry Spencer]

In article <14134 at oberon.USC.EDU> blarson at skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes:
>>There
>>really ought to be a way for a program to specify that a predefinition
>>of a particular identifier is expected.
>
>#ifndef FROBUZ
>    ??= error	FROBUZ must be pre-defined!
>#endif

No, you miss the point.  What I was saying was not "there ought to be a
way for a program to insist that a predefinition is required" but "there
ought to be a way for a program to tell the compiler that a predefinition
is legitimate and does not mess up the program".
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