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| From | Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com> |
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| Date | Sat, 21 May 2011 10:37:00 -0400 |
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On 2011-05-21 10:08:58 -0400, Huibert Bol said: > Johannes Schaub wrote: > >> I have this code in my pet project >> >> #if sizeof -1 > 4 >> #error "This doesn't work on 64bit" >> #endif >> >> My friend was telling me that this shouldn't work because "sizeof is not >> evaluated in the preprocessor". Yet the compiler accepts it and my program >> works. > > Identifiers in #if expressions are evaluated as zero, Good point. -- Pete Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. (www.versatilecoding.com) Author of "The Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference (www.petebecker.com/tr1book)
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Using sizeof in the preprocessor Johannes Schaub <schaub.johannes@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-21 15:35 +0200
Re: Using sizeof in the preprocessor Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com> - 2011-05-21 09:42 -0400
Re: Using sizeof in the preprocessor Huibert Bol <huibert.bol@quicknet.nl> - 2011-05-21 16:08 +0200
Re: Using sizeof in the preprocessor Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com> - 2011-05-21 10:37 -0400
Re: Using sizeof in the preprocessor Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-05-21 18:51 +0000
Re: Using sizeof in the preprocessor Huibert Bol <huibert.bol@quicknet.nl> - 2011-05-21 21:52 +0200
Re: Using sizeof in the preprocessor Johannes Schaub <schaub.johannes@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-21 21:54 +0200
Re: Using sizeof in the preprocessor Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2011-05-21 21:54 +0200
Re: Using sizeof in the preprocessor Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-05-22 06:02 +0000
Re: Using sizeof in the preprocessor Johannes Schaub <schaub.johannes@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-21 22:19 +0200
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