[Bug libc/12153] use of keywords in macro definitions can make compilation fail

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12153

Vincent LefÃvre <vincent+libc at vinc17 dot org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|use of keywords in macro    |use of keywords in macro
                   |definitions (e.g. void in   |definitions can make
                   |assert) can make            |compilation fail
                   |compilation fail            |

--- Comment #3 from Vincent LefÃvre <vincent+libc at vinc17 dot org> 2010-10-22 15:14:43 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I think this is generally considered to be a bug in the C standard.  Given 
> the explicit definition in the standard of how assert should be defined 
> under NDEBUG it seems fairly clear that committee has never explicitly 
> intended such usages to work; it's simply been so obviously a bug that 
> no-one has felt the need to spend their time explicitly affirming that.

I agree for assert(), though the explicit definition may be seen itself as a
bug in the standard (in the sense: why should void be an exception to the
rule?). But it seems that <math.h> has similar problems, where the standard
doesn't give an explicit definition.

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