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From: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
Subject: Re: c++/9891: #error does not expand macros
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The following reply was made to PR c++/9891; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
To: Stephen Murrell <stephen@rabbit.eng.miami.edu>
Cc: neil@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org,
	nobody@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/9891: #error does not expand macros
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 00:08:20 +0000

 Stephen Murrell wrote:-
 
 > 
 > 
 > How annoying.
 > 
 > I'd been relying on the standard "C a reference manual"
 > rather than IOS/IEC 9899, which I try to avoid reading
 > at all costs. Didn't realise that rule got changed when
 > the standard was adopted.
 
 C has never done that, not even when Dennis created it.
 
 Neil.