deprecated GNU ## extension used

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Tue Jul 11 15:56:00 GMT 2000


Neil Booth <NeilB@earthling.net> writes:

> I don't think we _need_ an ill-defined extension, it just makes some
> things easier, but breaks standards conformance.

Nothing breaks conformance.  You cannot concatenate a comma with
anything else and therefore handling

	some, ##args

will not break conformance.  It simply implements an extension where
code following ISO C strictly would have to fail.

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