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<h2 class="chapter">4 Conditionals</h2>
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<p>A <em>conditional</em> is a directive that instructs the preprocessor to
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select whether or not to include a chunk of code in the final token
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<p>A conditional in the C preprocessor resembles in some ways an <code>if</code>
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