Q) jdk1.4.1 compile on -current

Sheldon Hearn sheldonh at starjuice.net
Sun Jul 27 06:05:55 PDT 2003


On (2003/07/26 00:23), Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> It's not a GCC bug, it's a JDK bug which GCC used to silently ignore.
> The ## operator should only be used to paste together parts of what is
> meant to be a single token, but apparently a lot of people use it
> between tokens in macro definitions (which is not only incorrect but
> also completely unnecessary).

So name##_t is supposed to be name_t?  Any idea what the original
programmer wanted to achieve or avoid by doing this?

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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