kyle@xanth.UUCP (03/25/87)
In article <7700002@iaoobelix.UUCP>, wagner@iaoobelix.UUCP writes: > > I have tried to run `screen' on a Sun. Well, the file screen.c contains a > variable called `sun'... > > You know what happened: `sun' gets replaced by `1' because we're running on a > Sun and cpp wants to indicate this!! I had a similar problem trying to make a sendmail header file with a #define DBM 1 in it, live with 4.3 BSD's ndbm.h, in which DBM is struct typedef! I had a devil of a time trying to figure out what was going on. It would be nice if cpp would allow programmers to write something like #define DBM DBM Anyone know of a better way to avoid such collisions, besides say, prepending an _ to macros #define'd that will only be used in later #ifdef's? kyle jones <kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu> odu computer science, norfolk, va