[comp.lang.c] pre-defined publics in MSC 5.1

tad@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Tad Marko) (09/14/88)

I just got a copy of "The Waite Group's Microsoft C Bible" by Barkakati
(great book!), and have been going through it learning all kinds of 
things that I was too lazy to wring out of MS's manual.  On page 33 is
a list of pre-defined public variables.  Included on the list are _date_,
_time_, and _timestamp_.  These all allegedly contain information about
the compile time of the program.  Well, neato -- if I could get them to 
work.  All attempts I have made to access these have failed, with the
linker complaining that they are unresolved externals.  Can someone
show me an example that successfully uses these?

Tad
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bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) (09/15/88)

In article <5520@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> tad@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Tad Marko) writes:
: a list of pre-defined public variables.  Included on the list are _date_,
: _time_, and _timestamp_.

Try them in upper case.  Also, try using __ instead of _.  ANSI
defines __DATE__ and __TIME__ and I suppose these are the things
being referred to.

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