From: Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>
To: Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: warning: pasting would not give a valid preprocessing token
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jmlmy3b0qg.fsf@envy.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008112340220.6780-100000@winds.org>
Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org> writes:
> I've seen this warning in many of my .c files when compiling with versions of
> 2.96 from mid-july and newer.. has anyone else seen this before, know what it
> is, and how to fix it?
>
> warning: pasting would not give a valid preprocessing token
It means you're writing something like
#define paste(a, b) a##b
paste(*,foo)
because '*foo' is not a token, the tokens you want are '*' and 'foo'.
The solution is to replace the ## with a space.
--
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-11 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-11 20:41 Byron Stanoszek
2000-08-11 20:46 ` Geoff Keating [this message]
2000-08-11 20:58 ` Byron Stanoszek
2000-08-11 23:31 ` Zack Weinberg
2000-08-12 8:19 ` Byron Stanoszek
2000-09-06 19:18 ` Zack Weinberg
2000-09-07 12:04 ` Byron Stanoszek
2000-09-11 21:44 ` Zack Weinberg
[not found] <20000914185040.A12722@daikokuya.demon.co.uk>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009141510140.21092-201000@winds.org>
2000-09-14 15:53 ` Neil Booth
2000-09-14 16:02 ` Neil Booth
2000-09-14 16:08 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-09-15 16:53 ` Byron Stanoszek
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