On May 19, 2:23 am, r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:
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red floyd <no.s...@here.dudewrites: Quote: Quote:
>>i was wondering what's the difference between the following commands:
>>#ifndef
>>#if !defined
>They are synonymous.
| They are synonymous, except that !defined can be used in a
preprocessor expression...
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This is not an exception to the assertion that these commands
are synonymous, because assertions about whether !defined
can be used in such an expression are not in the scope of the
assertion of the synonymity of these two preprocessor
commands.
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Yes and no. In the first case, you have the preprocessor
command #ifndef, in the second the preprocessor command #if. It
really depends on what you consider is a "preprocessor command".
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For another example, the statements i++; and ++i; are
synonymous, but the expressions i++ and ++i are not.
But the assertion about the expressions is not an exception
to the assertion about the statements.
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Yes, but he clearly doesn't have a complete preprocessor
directive in either case, since there's no symbol after the
#ifndef or the defined.
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However, the above preprocessor commands actually are not
commands at all, but directives - preprocessing directives.
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What he wrote are not legal preprocessing directives. More is
needed. The first is considerably more restrictive with regards
to what that more can be.
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