if(constant) instead of #if

[Henry Spencer]

In article <19730 at cornell.UUCP> blandy at cs.cornell.edu (Jim Blandy) writes:
>An alternative to consider:  it's a simple task for a compiler to 
>recognize that the condition for an if ( ) statement is a constant,
>use this knowledge in guessing which statements are unreachable, and
>drop unreachable code...

This does not work for declarations, unfortunately.
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