Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>>   Basically, preprocessor macro expansion should never create new tokens
>>> unless the token pasting operator (##) is explicitly used to do so. However,
>>> Microsoft's C preprocessor doesn't take this into account at all.
> 
>> I see. I can see where that would (A) really annoy and confuse people 
>> expecting the standard behavior and (B) would really annoy people who relied 
>> on it if it got changed. :-) All the more reason to make sure stuff works 
>> before releasing it.
> 
>   I have really hard time believing that they aren't fixing it because they
> don't want to break existing programs. 

Well, there's always the possibility that they just don't find it 
economically worthwhile. But yeah, you'd be surprised at what existing 
programs rely on, bugwise. :-) I *don't* think it's because they can't 
figure out how to fix it. I think it's an intentional business decision, for 
whatever reason, not a "our compiler writer guys can't figure out how to fix 
this."

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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