Assorted C Questions

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <14556 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
-In article <1989Sep7.162354.20722 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
->(And the basic point remains: the [function-like macro] name is recognized
->only when there is a '(' after it.)
-It should be noted that this feature is new to ANSI C, and should not be
-exploited by programs that need to be portable to pre-ANSI environments.

It's more the acceptance of the un-() occurrence as a valid literal token
that is new.  PCC used to say "argument mismatch" when it encountered such
an instance, for eaxmple.