Another sizeof question

[Henry Spencer]

In article <2638 at cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>I was a little surprised to discover that ANSI C tries to allow the
>preprocessor to be separately implementable, but it does not require it
>to be separately available.

Why the surprise?  There is a big difference between "allows" and "requires"
when we are talking about a language that is already in widespread use with
many divergent implementations.
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