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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: src/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc: proposed change 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jan 1996 22:50:43 MST."
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 22:01:58 -0800
From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Terry wrote:

> Why not:
> 
>  	movl	$ ## FOO,%eax
> 
> Instead?
> 
> If it hits the preprocessor first, it should be no problem.

Clever idea, but it won't work.  The `##' operator has meaning only
within a macro expansion.  I double-checked the ANSI C standard, just to
make sure.

-- John