[cfe-dev] #define behavior

[Hartmut Kaiser]

Neil, 

> > > > Further, IIUC concatenating two tokens (using ##) 
> forming another
> > > > (invalid) pp token results in undefined behaviour in 
> C90/C++ but 
> > > > is allowed in C99/C++09. Gcc issues a warning here (I'm not
> > > sure about clang) for C90/C++.
> > > 
> > > There is no difference between C90 and C99 here.  I'm the person 
> > > that made it a hard error in GCC; it is not a warning.
> > >  That is and was my preference.  :)
> > 
> > Ok, but it is allowed in C99, and undefined behaviour in C++98. 
> > Admittedly, I was not sure about C90.
> 
> I don't understand what you mean "is allowed".  An 
> implementation can choose to make undefined behaviour allowed 
> in any particular case, but invalid pasting is not required 
> to be accepted by any of the standards; it is undefined in 
> all (or can you quote something to the contrary?)

I had to re-read both standards, and you're right. I'm sorry for the noise,
somehow I was thinking it's not undefined behaviour in C99.

> C++'s preprocessor is essentially C90's with a couple of tweaks
> for booleans and UCNs; nothing else changes.

Ok, good to know. I don't have a C90 standards document available.

Regards Hartmut