bug or problem with gcc and include files

[Nils Philippsen]

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#110
> 
> 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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