Preprocessors

[Volker Stolz]

The reason for this strange behaviour is that it's called *C*pp for a reason:
There's even a remark on a cpp-info page:

"The interior of `#if 0' must consist of complete
 tokens; in particular, single-quote characters must balance."

I'm still trying to find the apprioriate hint in the standard, though.

If I'm reading this correctly, your incorrectly terminated C-string literal
confuses cpp, so it won't do any macro expansion in the offending part (past
the single quote).
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