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  69. <h4 class="subsection">4.2.3 Defined</h4>
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  71. <p>The special operator <code>defined</code> is used in &lsquo;<samp>#if</samp>&rsquo; and
  72. &lsquo;<samp>#elif</samp>&rsquo; expressions to test whether a certain name is defined as a
  73. macro. <code>defined <var>name</var></code> and <code>defined (<var>name</var>)</code> are
  74. both expressions whose value is 1 if <var>name</var> is defined as a macro at
  75. the current point in the program, and 0 otherwise. Thus, <code>#if&nbsp;defined&nbsp;MACRO<!-- /@w --></code> is precisely equivalent to <code>#ifdef&nbsp;MACRO<!-- /@w --></code>.
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  77. <p><code>defined</code> is useful when you wish to test more than one macro for
  78. existence at once. For example,
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  81. <pre class="smallexample">#if defined (__vax__) || defined (__ns16000__)
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  83. <p>would succeed if either of the names <code>__vax__</code> or
  84. <code>__ns16000__</code> is defined as a macro.
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  86. <p>Conditionals written like this:
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  89. <pre class="smallexample">#if defined BUFSIZE &amp;&amp; BUFSIZE &gt;= 1024
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  92. since if <code>BUFSIZE</code> is not defined, it will be interpreted as having
  93. the value zero.
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  95. <p>If the <code>defined</code> operator appears as a result of a macro expansion,
  96. the C standard says the behavior is undefined. GNU cpp treats it as a
  97. genuine <code>defined</code> operator and evaluates it normally. It will warn
  98. wherever your code uses this feature if you use the command-line option
  99. <samp>-Wpedantic</samp>, since other compilers may handle it differently. The
  100. warning is also enabled by <samp>-Wextra</samp>, and can also be enabled
  101. individually with <samp>-Wexpansion-to-defined</samp>.
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