The following reply was made to PR preprocessor/8449; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "Christian Ehrhardt" <ehrhardt@mathematik.uni-ulm.de>
Cc: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org,
	gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: preprocessor/8449: Ellipsis in 3...5 not recognized properly
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 12:09:54 +0100

 "Christian Ehrhardt" <ehrhardt@mathematik.uni-ulm.de> writes:
 
 |> int a[2] = {[0...1] = 1};
 
 This is a constraint violation.  0...1 is a preprocessing token (a
 pp-number, 6.4.8), but not a token, thus it violates 6.4[#2]: "Each
 preprocessing token that is converted to a token shall have the lexical
 form of a keyword, an identifier, a constant, a string literal, or a
 punctuator."
 
 Andreas.
 
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