[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src configure,1.279.6.17,1.279.6.18 configure.in,1.288.6.17,1.288.6.18

[Jack Jansen]

On dinsdag, feb 25, 2003, at 22:16 Europe/Amsterdam, Neal Norwitz wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:29:59PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
>> [from a checkin comment]
>>> Need to make sure that preprocessor directives start in first column.
>>> This means we can't indent code which has preprocessor directives,
>>> nor have a space between [ #include for example.
>>
>> [Neil Schemenauer]
>>> What does the C standard say about this?  I'm curious.
>>
>> Spaces and horizontal tabs are fine before '#', and between '#' and 
>> the
>> directive name; other kinds of whitespace are not OK in directive 
>> lines (and
>> directive lines are special this way); sounds like we're catering to a
>> broken compiler here.

Before ANSI C said it is okay to have whitespace before the # most 
compilers would
require the # to be in column one. And I've seen quite a couple of 
sources that
had something like
#if __STDC__
  #pragma or other ansi construct
#endif
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