[OpenAFS-devel] problem with cpp directives in concatenation...

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

That's the point.  It's required to exist as a function, but allowed to
exist as a macro also.  Can't quote the relevant section and verse,
since I can't afford the ISO documents...

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:04:29PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Since when is 'printf()' allowed to be a macro?  It's an ANSI-C
> function.
> 
> -derek
> 
> Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+afs@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:29:23PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> > > It sounds to me like gcc and/or glibc is going to have to change.  I'm
> > > sure we're not the only ones doing this sort of thing.
> > 
> > Never happen - they're within the letter of the law.  Preprocessor
> > directives are not required to work within macro expansion, and might
> > even be prohibited from doing so.  And anything in the standard library
> > not explicitly listed otherwise is allowed to be a macro.
> > 
> > They're not fond of making life easy for existing code, over in glibc
> > land...
> > 
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