Re: [HACKERS] psql vs. gcc

On 1999-12-17, Tom Lane mentioned:

> After looking at my C reference, I believe gcc is following the ANSI C
> spec and Peter's code is broken. According to the book I'm looking at,
> concatenation of adjacent string literals is specified to happen while
> forming preprocessing tokens, which obviously must occur *before*
> preprocessor directives are evaluated. (#if throws away preprocessing
> tokens, not raw characters...) So when MULTIBYTE is defined, an
> ANSI-compliant compiler will see a syntax error in the above.

I usually compile all code with both gcc 2.8.1 and egcs 2.91.66 and make
it -Wall -W proof. So I must consider that an omission in those compilers.
Thanks for pointing it out.

> > describe.c:324: warning: preprocessing directive not recognized within macro arg
>
> Looks like there are a few other problems here too...

The problem sounds more like strcpy is a macro now. Great. More macros.
Just what I need. :)

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