From: billlanam AT california DOT com (Bill Lanam)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GCC Bug - Information
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 21:38:04 GMT
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On 3 Feb 1997 00:50:13 GMT, afn03257 AT freenet2 DOT afn DOT org (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.

No it is an extremely useful feature, for example lets say you change the name
of a structure member then using the #define statement saves you the trouble of
changing the member in a bunch of files (of course that does require that you
not have any variables that are the same name as the member).

    Bill Lanam