Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 16:44:30 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bakul@netcom.com, obrien@leonardo.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: This one looks very very suspecious to me.... Message-ID: <199505100644.QAA01534@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> This is more of a problem with the Rand editor than anything >> else. I've never seen worse abuse of cpp than in the Rand >> editor (not counting Obfuscated C contest entrants). Not >> sure if the -traditional flag may have helped. >Tsk. Legal is as legal does. :-) I don't think it should have any >business trying to pick character constants out of something inside >an excluded #ifdef block. I should be able to put raw random bits It has to look inside the #ifdef block because it isn't excluded. Comments affect #ifdef blocks: #if 0 /* The #endif on the next line doesn't terminate the #if 0. #endif This text is excluded. The #endif on the next line terminates the #if 0. */ #endif Quotes affect comments: #if 0 '/*' This is not a comment since the comment begin sequence was quoted The #endif on the next line terminates the #if 0. #endif This text is not excluded. The #endif on the next line is an error. */ #endif Bruce
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