Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Hmm, that doesn't match my recollection. I just checked, and
>> SunOS 4.1.4 cc compiles and runs the following program just fine:
>> #if 0
>> #error "foo"
>> #endif
>> main() { return 0; }
Saying that SunOS cc ignores preprocessor directives beginning with
whitespace.
> I didn't test it, but rather based it on a fileutils ChangeLog entry
> from you. Maybe you were using a different version of cc back when you
> wrote it?
[...]
> # else
> -# error No 32-bit type available!
> + /* The following line is intended to throw an error.
> + Using #error is not portable enough. */
> + "No 32-bit type available!"
> # endif
> # endif
> # endif
Saying that SunOS doesn't do the right thing with an #error directive that
does begin in column one (but in this case has whitespace between the #
and "error").
I think these are two different things.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
