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anttiok
on Oct 9, 2013
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Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word “li...
If you're in the habit of writing "struct sockaddr_in sin;", you'll probably be tempted to write "struct sockaddr_un sun;". Just don't expect that code to compile on Solaris.
robmcm1982
on Oct 9, 2013
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Is that just hardcoded into the preprocessor itself? Or is part of ANSI C. Wondering if the MS C++ compiler will do this well.
simias
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It's not and can be tuned using compiler options as mentioned in TFA. Definitely not standard.
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