trouble with macro`s

[Geoffrey Rogers]

In article <1991Mar16.213446.20392 at NCoast.ORG> catfood at NCoast.ORG (Mark W. Schumann) writes:
>You could try
>
>  #dfine name2(a,b) a/**/b
>
>This might work, but I am not sure whether K&R compilers strip
>comments before or after evaluating macros.  Try it.

Yes this works on some not all pre-ANSI cpp. Another to do the
same thing is:

   #define name2(a,b)	name2_(a)b
   #define name2_(a)	a

this also works. But I do not know if it works on all pre-ANSI cpp.


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