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Re: "warning: preprocessor directive not recognised within macro arg" (fwd)
- To: Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay at labs dot interopen dot org>
- Subject: Re: "warning: preprocessor directive not recognised within macro arg" (fwd)
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at wolery dot cumb dot org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:19:52 -0800
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10003160109500.31063-100000@inet-gw0.labs.ekto.org>
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:09:58AM +0000, Mo McKinlay wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been compiling the Open Look libraries for Linux (xview-3.2p1), and
> ran up against the above warning followed by "unmatched #ifdef" errors.
>
> I can fix the sources, no problem, but I was wondering if there was any
> plans to support preprocessor directives within macro expansions?
No, there are not. I sympathize with your problem, but there are
_serious_ implementation difficulties, and we have too many extensions
already (this code is illegal C). Please see
http://gcc.gnu.org/fom_serv/cache/29.html.
zw