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Next: <a href="If.html#If" accesskey="n" rel="next">If</a>, Up: <a href="Conditional-Syntax.html#Conditional-Syntax" accesskey="u" rel="up">Conditional Syntax</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index-of-Directives.html#Index-of-Directives" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<a name="Ifdef-1"></a>
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<h4 class="subsection">4.2.1 Ifdef</h4>
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<a name="index-_0023ifdef"></a>
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<a name="index-_0023endif"></a>
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<p>The simplest sort of conditional is
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<pre class="smallexample">#ifdef <var>MACRO</var>
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<a name="index-conditional-group"></a>
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<p>This block is called a <em>conditional group</em>. <var>controlled text</var>
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<var>MACRO</var> is defined. We say that the conditional <em>succeeds</em> if
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Older programs sometimes put <var>MACRO</var> directly after the
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‘<samp>#endif</samp>’ without enclosing it in a comment. This is invalid code
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according to the C standard. CPP accepts it with a warning. It
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<p>Sometimes you wish to use some code if a macro is <em>not</em> defined.
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command-line options when you compile the program. You can arrange to
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macro name to specify which program you want, writing conditionals to
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test whether or how this macro is defined, and then controlling the
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state of the macro with command-line options, perhaps set in the
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Makefile. See <a href="Invocation.html#Invocation">Invocation</a>.
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</li><li> Your program might have a special header file (often called
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<samp>config.h</samp>) that is adjusted when the program is compiled. It can
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define or not define macros depending on the features of the system and
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