Traditional miscellany - The C Preprocessor

Here are some things to be aware of when using the traditional preprocessor.

Preprocessing directives are recognized only when their leading `#' appears in the first column. There can be no whitespace between the beginning of the line and the `#', but whitespace can follow the `#'.
A true traditional C preprocessor does not recognize `#error' or `#pragma', and may not recognize `#elif'. CPP supports all the directives in traditional mode that it supports in ISO mode, including extensions, with the exception that the effects of `#pragma GCC poison' are undefined.
__STDC__ is not defined.
If you use digraphs the behavior is undefined.
If a line that looks like a directive appears within macro arguments, the behavior is undefined.