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I have seen that writing anything after the completion of any
pre-processor compiler directive does not affect either compilation or
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i.e.
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#define M 100 *&^asdf
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I'm not shore that I understood your problem.
#if 0
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>>#define M 100 *&^asdf
the compiler does not evaluate macros until used. If you coded something like below your compiler would complain bitterly at you
int x = M;
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