Dear Nathan Sidwell, In message <4d0718d5.2050...@codesourcery.com> you wrote: > > >> It is required by the C and C++ standards. > > > > Could you please provide a link? Not that I don't believe you, but > > I'd like to understand the rationale, if there is any. > > C std 6.10.1 para 2
Hm... which exact part requires this behaviour? Please quote, to make sure we're accessing the same text. I'm asking because the "Rationale" has the following part (see http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/rat/c8.html#3-8-1) : ... " Processing of skipped material is defined such that an implementation need only examine a logical line for the # and then for a directive name. Thus, assuming that xxx is undefined, in this example: # ifndef xxx # define xxx "abc" # elif xxx > 0 /* ... */ # endif an implementation is not required to diagnose an error for the elif statement, even though if it were processed, a syntactic error would be detected. " ... To me this looks like the situation we have here? I understand that "is not required" still permits such behaviour, but you say it is _required_ which is yet another thing. Thanks. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Either one of us, by himself, is expendable. Both of us are not. -- Kirk, "The Devil in the Dark", stardate 3196.1 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
