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Subject: Re: `const char rcsid[]' vs -traditional
To: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay)
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:43:11 +0200 (MESZ)
Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au
In-Reply-To: <199607310947.TAA00654@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen McKay" at Jul 31, 96 07:47:55 pm
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In his e-mail Stephen McKay wrote:
> 
> Should we switch to #ident?  It doesn't do anything useful on 2.1.5, but
> we could fix that.
> 
> 	#ident "$Id: frobble.c,v ..."
> 
> What does the C standard say about #ident?  Has anyone put a copy of the
> standard on the web?

Nothing, as far as I know.  Which makes it non-standard  (there are ANSI
conformant preprocessors which ignore #ident with disgust.  HP's, for
instance.)

/Marino
> 
> Stephen.
>