Re: lynx-dev The whole CTRACE thing

[John Bley]

Lots of people wrote:
> > > > >   CTRACE ((tfp, "foo"));  
> > > > Is this portable?  I was unaware the preprocessor could do that.  
> > > yes, but it causes some compilers and most versions of lint to spit 
> > > out nasty messages. 
> > I'm astonished -- this would seem to be most basic facility, to 
> > support parenthesized [sub-]expressions as arguments to macros. 
> not that.  the dangling constant expression on the 'while' loop.

Ah.  If the () preprocessor stuff is portable though, I think a good 
workaround could exist.  I'll think about it and test some stuff out.

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