>>> Unfortunately this has the nasty side effect that c will be
>>> evaluated twice, in isblank().
>> which is not permissible by the C standard and would be a cure that
>> kills the patient anyways.
> What in the _world_ are you talking about?!?

while (isblank(*cpp++)) ;

> It's perfectly reasonable to do multiple comparisons/evaluations so
> long as you are not changing the value of the thing being evaluated
> in the process.

Not in a macro whose spec is otherwise.

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