Hmmm. Trying to trick the pre-processor?

> >#    define ID(s) \
> >#ident s
> 
> This can't be done in ISO C. Macro replacement are not rescanned for
> preprocessor commands.

Well here's something that _does_ work with gcc...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#define ID(prefix,nl,string) nl##prefix string##nl

#if defined(__GNUC__)
ID(#ident,
, "@(#) $Id: fname.c,v 1.1 1995/07/14 01:00:39 jb Exp $")
#endif
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Notice that the use of ID() _requires_ the two lines in order to get the new
line character in the output.

This will let us use -Wall without rcsid usage warnings and without allocating
space for the version strings in memory, but it means that #ident has to be
implemented in gcc (like jconklin@netcom.com said in message
<199507261558.IAA15018@netcom4.netcom.com>).

I'd like to see #ident do something useful because it's one of the few things
I like about the old System V we've got. Putting the @(#) in the #ident
strings and being able to do a 'what' on the binary was nice. When we got
systems that ignore #ident, we were not prepared to have these strings take
up memory at runtime, so we stopped using them and created a utility that
writes them to another file.


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