Re: Portability of preprocessor directives

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:33:00PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I'm interested even in compilers that might have shipped prior to the
> > last decade, if they're used, but I'm not interested in compilers that
> > no one uses anymore for any practical work.
...
> Most real C compilers had #elif support added in the late 1980s, as it

most but not all.  HPUX 9.x's C compiler trashed files starting with an #elif
(that's in the early 90's - within the scope of his request).

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