On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Andrey Petrov wrote:

> > >Yeah, well spotted, but still not enought parentheses, what if one day
> > >
> > >#define hz	0+1
> >
> > Then you lose.  If you want that effect, do:
> >
> > #define hz	(0+1)
>
> Right! But I'd rather have mstohz macro written correctly.

It's _entirely reasonable_ for it to use the value of a variable without
enclosing its value in parens.  If it weren't, then _every_ use of a
variable in the source tree (not just in macros, everywhere) would have to
use parens, just to satisfy loonies who want to write broken macros.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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