Re: CVS update: MODIFIED: include ...

Karl Fogel wrote:

>joe@tigris.org writes:
>
>> Log:
>> * svn_types.h: Don't use ## when concatenating string tokens.
>>
>
>Thanks, Joe! I took another look at K&R, and learned why the ## was
>unnecessary for this simple case.
>

It's not unnecessary, it's simply wrong. The concatenated result must be
a valid preprocessing token, which "a""b" is not.Preprocessing tokens
are parsed in translation phase 3, and string literals aren't
concatenated till phase 6. See 5.1.1.2, 6.4p1 and 6.10.3.3p3 in the C
standard.

Ahh, it feels so good to be a language lawyer! :-)

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