From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <jmlmy3b0qg.fsf@envy.cygnus.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008112340220.6780-100000@winds.org>
X-SW-Source: 2000-08/msg00272.html

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.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>