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Re: C preprocessor failure

To: sobotka at axess dot com
Subject: Re: C preprocessor failure
From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at cygnus dot com>
Date: 15 May 2000 15:53:23 -0300
Cc: Dave Brolley <brolley at redhat dot com>, Stephen Olsen <Stephen_Olsen at mentorg dot com>, Neil Booth <NeilB at earthling dot net>, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
Organization: Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company
References: <391E49EB.AE68FFEF@esd.mentorg.com><E12r7L0-0007AI-00@monkey.rosenet.ne.jp><3920211D.463518C1@esd.mentorg.com><39203295.A3B354D0@esd.mentorg.com> <392034F7.5DD075D5@redhat.com><3920448E.79C0@axess.com>

On May 15, 2000, Henry Sobotka <sobotka@axess.com> wrote:

> OK, but then what's the rationale for treating the first escaped quote
> like an unescaped one and trying to match it?

There's no such thing as an escaped quote except within string or
character literals.  `\' is one token, and `"' is another, that
happens to start a string literal.

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References:
- C preprocessor failure
  - From: Stephen Olsen
- Re: C preprocessor failure
  - From: Neil Booth
- Re: C preprocessor failure
  - From: Stephen Olsen
- Re: C preprocessor failure
  - From: Stephen Olsen
- Re: C preprocessor failure
  - From: Dave Brolley
- Re: C preprocessor failure
  - From: Henry Sobotka

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