Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:44:18 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@tcbug.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Way OT programming question Message-ID: <20040802054418.GA376@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <200408011829.58952.friar_josh@tcbug.org> References: <200408011829.58952.friar_josh@tcbug.org>
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On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:29:58PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
[...]
> #ifndef lint
> #if 0
> static char sccsid[] = "@(#)cat.c 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/27/95";
> #endif
> #endif /* not lint */
> #include <sys/cdefs.h>
> __FBSDID("$FreeBSD: src/bin/cat/cat.c,v 1.29 2003/04/30 17:40:28
> obrien Exp $");
>
> 1) Isn't 'if 0' always negative?
Yes. The "#if 0" is a common way of blocking out code that you
don't/can't want to remove.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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