From: Tudor <tudor AT cam DOT org>
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Subject: Re: GCC Bug - Information
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 10:45:16 -0800
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Daniel P Hudson wrote:
> 
>      The GNU C preprocessor has a known bug that is present in 2.7.2.1
> and probably earlier versions.
> 
> EX code.
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #define x 10
> 
> int main(void)
> {
>   printf("%f\n", .x); // should cause a preprocessor error
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> It is not real important, however it is an ANSI violation some people
> may want to look into.
OK. Why is it an ANSI violation?
It actually compiled fine :-) and it prints something like 0.100000 .
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