From 4817248900209434240 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,84782ef958bb42bf X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-19 10:36:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsrout1.ntli.net!news.ntli.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!devnull From: kuyper@wizard.net (James Kuyper) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Definition of /header/ and/or /source file/ - refer to POSIX commiteee? Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:36:41 +0000 (UTC) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 40 Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <8b42afac.0404190844.694f995c@posting.google.com> References: <-qidnSx_yo8eQefdRVn-vg@speakeasy.net> <8cqm70l0p4cv6sqns6j74tpakn80jv6bbr@4ax.com> <5L6dnYgUJ41X9ODd4p2dnA@speakeasy.net> <8b42afac.0404151400.12861b9f@posting.google.com> <3cIfc.51826$75.2848@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com> <273gc.37698$tj4.2001@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1082396201 18608 10.0.0.1 (19 Apr 2004 17:36:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:36:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.oz.au ([128.250.1.22]) by news.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1BFchE-0004pz-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:36:40 +0000 X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU with ESMTP id i3JHaci2011335; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 03:36:38 +1000 (EST) X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i3JHacne011326; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 03:36:38 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:44:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-mulga_r1 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.2 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.60-mulga_r1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:1763 nagle@animats.com (John Nagle) wrote in message news:<273gc.37698$tj4.2001@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com>... > Matthew Collett wrote: > > > In article <3cIfc.51826$75.2848@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>, > > nagle@animats.com (John Nagle) wrote: > > > > > >> Perl searches entire subtrees for > >>included files; the C++ preprocessor does not. > > > > > > I hadve always understood the way the preprocessor searches for includes > > to be entirely implementation defined... > > Does that mean that this issue should be referred to the > IEEE's Portable Application Standards Committee, for incorporation > into the POSIX standard? If the C++ committee explicitly takes the position > that the syntax and semantics of what appears within the quote marks of "include" > lies outside their scope, the issue properly belongs to PASC. The standard specifies a large portion of implementation-defined behavior for header names, without leaving it completely unspecified: 1. "How the places are specified or the header identified is implementation-defined." 2. "the named source file is searched for in an implementation-define manner." 3. "The method by which a sequence of preprocessing tokens between a < and a > processing token pair o a pair of " characters is combined into a single header name processin token is implementation-defined. 4. "The mapping between the delimited sequence and the external source file name is implemenation-defined." 5. There is an "implementation-defined nesting limit" for #includes. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]