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		tedunangst on Oct 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word “li... How well does that play with ifdef? The problem is rarely what does this macro expand to, but which macro is going to be expanded.

simias on Oct 9, 2013 [–]

Well, I guess it depends on what your code looks like.

That being said if I'm not sure if some code is being compiled I just add an "#error foo" and rebuild. Or even simpler I just type in some garbage to trigger a compilation error.

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