On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:30, Robert Marcano wrote:
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 11:14, Steve Wampler wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 06:59, jludwig wrote:
> > If include is a preprocessor directive how can it be in the body of a
> > function?
>
> Uh, how can it not be ok there? The preprocessor doesn't know
> anything about function bodies - it's just processing text, not
> C code.
>
> In fact, you can do some amazing things with the preprocessor,
> most of which shouldn't be done.
A good example of this is located at
http://lxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/lib/softoken/pkcs11.c...
this #include allows this code to define a function pointers structure
with the same function definitions previously included
Nevertheless, usually headers need to be "aware" of being included at
random places. Most system headers aren't.
Nils
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