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 -- Nils Philippsen / Red Hat / nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011
