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<h4 class="subsection">4.2.3 Defined</h4>
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<p><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007bdefined_007d-89"></a>The special operator <code>defined</code> is used in ‘<samp><span class="samp">#if</span></samp>’ and
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‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’ expressions to test whether a certain name is defined as a
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macro. <code>defined </code><var>name</var> and <code>defined (</code><var>name</var><code>)</code> are
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both expressions whose value is 1 if <var>name</var> is defined as a macro at
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the current point in the program, and 0 otherwise. Thus, <code>#if defined MACRO<!-- /@w --></code> is precisely equivalent to <code>#ifdef MACRO<!-- /@w --></code>.
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<p><code>defined</code> is useful when you wish to test more than one macro for
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<p class="noindent">would succeed if either of the names <code>__vax__</code> or
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<code>__ns16000__</code> is defined as a macro.
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<p>Conditionals written like this:
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<pre class="smallexample"> #if defined BUFSIZE && BUFSIZE >= 1024
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<p class="noindent">can generally be simplified to just <code>#if BUFSIZE >= 1024<!-- /@w --></code>,
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since if <code>BUFSIZE</code> is not defined, it will be interpreted as having
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the value zero.
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<p>If the <code>defined</code> operator appears as a result of a macro expansion,
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the C standard says the behavior is undefined. GNU cpp treats it as a
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genuine <code>defined</code> operator and evaluates it normally. It will warn
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<samp><span class="option">-pedantic</span></samp>, since other compilers may handle it differently.
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