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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 07:50:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com
Cc: rkwcvdz AT rivier1 DOT puk DOT ac DOT za, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Moving from Pascal to Djgpp
In-Reply-To: <9605301726.AA03704@quasar.bloomberg.com >
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960603074853.20822C-100000@is>
Mime-Version: 1.0

On Thu, 30 May 1996 kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com wrote:

> BTW: Many compilers do not support preprocessor directives that do not begin in
> column 1.  GCC, and therefore DJGPP, does, as does Borland, but this may cause
> potability problems.

I don't see any portability problem here, since ANSI C explicitly permits 
any amount of whitespace (and even comments) to surround the `#' 
character in preprocessor directives.  Hardly anyone should consider 
pre-ANSI compilers nowadays.

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