[8972] in Athena Bugs
Re: decmips 7.3p: imake
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Sun Feb 16 00:13:17 1992
To: tom palka <tompalka@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [8970] in Athena Bugs
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 92 00:13:04 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>> It doesn't seem to make sense that "# if" would be a preprocessor
>> option, does it?
It makes perfect sense to me. Just because something works on one
system, doesn't mean it is correct. This is what "nonportable" means.
#if defined(FOO)
# if BAR
CFLAGS = -g -o
# endif
#endif
There is no way for imake to know that your "# if" was english text.
It could have been a cpp directive. If you want to include a comment
in an Imakefile, do
/**/# This.
That way, cpp won't try to parse it. Not A Bug.
Marc
