Clever C Preprocessor Definitions Sought

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Wed Sep 6 08:41:08 AEST 1989


In article <555 at stdc01.UUCP> mjones at stdc01.UUCP (Michael Jones) writes:
>       (If this example shocks you, arrange to view the S.R. Bourne "SH" 
>       source code! Almost anyone would think it was in algol-60.)

Modern versions of the Bourne shell have been fixed to get rid of those
silly macros, which made the code a little bit harder to read and noticeably
harder to use automatic tools on.
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