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From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
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In-Reply-To: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@leonardo.net>
       "Re: This one looks very very suspecious to me...." (May  9,  4:21pm)
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> 	One problem with #ifdef as opposed to commenting something out
> is that the current version of GCC seems to (try to) parse character
> constants inside #ifdef blocks.

This could be considered a bug in the pre-processor, since the
code-parser portion of the 'compiler' should never see anything inside
of #ifdef'd out code.  However, I suspect with all of the #pragma and
other junk being used the separation of the pre-processor from the rest
of the passes is not as clean as it used to be.


Nate