Subject: Re: Current-Build stops in libs
To: None <richard.earnshaw@arm.com>
From: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 11/21/1999 01:20:53
> Maybe that should be regarded as a bug in cpp, but it can be useful at
> times if the preprocessor just ignores things it doesn't understand,
> especially inside #if{,def} sequences that are false.
Yeah, and it can also screw you by silently accepting code that produces
buggy output!
I've seen OMF incompatibilities introduced into a shipping toolchain because
no one noticed the "preprocessor directive #elsse unknown, ignored" message
until it was Too Late.
Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com