Preprocessor directive & whitespace

[Norman Diamond]

Consider the following fragment of code:

  x = y + z;  /* comment
  more comment */  #define a b

Is this a legal #define?  I think no, because the comment is replaced
by a single space, so the "#" is preceded by more than whitespace --
it is preceded by "x = y + z;" on the same line.

If my processor encounters and obeys such an illegal #define, is it
required to produce a warning message, or may it obey silently?

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