Bug#154767: cpp-2.95: cpp fails to parse macros with varargs correctly
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:33:34AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:21:48AM +0200, Martin v. Loewis scribbled:
> > Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > OK, I found the statement about the preceeding non-witespace tokens but,
> > > still, I would think that something that breaks the kernel compile should be
> > > important no matter how trivial to work-around it is...
> >
> > The question is whether it should be fixed in the compiler, or in the
> > kernel.
> Since the 3.x+ preprocessors don't exhibit this bug, I would rather say that
> in the compiler. Also, the requirement of putting the spaces around the
> comma is somewhat troublesome, counter-intuitive and not really justified by
> anything, IMHO... Adding (or not) spaces should be a matter of style and not
> syntax - since the C syntax doesn't require the spaces, the preprocessor
> requirement is the more unexpected by a C/C++ programmer.
Since the 3.x preprocessors don't exhibit the bug, GCC doesn't need to
be fixed; if the kernel wants to maintain compatibility with 2.95, then
it should add the necessary space itself.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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