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Subject: Re: What is the use of the null directive # ?
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"Prateek R Karandikar" <kprateek88@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:607f883e.0406251028.5412fc80@posting.google.com...

> What is the use of the null-directive # ?

With early C compilers the null-directive at the beginning of a source file
was informing about the source file should be preprocessed before further
compilation.

--
Ivan


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