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  57. <span id="If-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">4.2.2 If</h4>
  58. <p>The &lsquo;<samp>#if</samp>&rsquo; directive allows you to test the value of an arithmetic
  59. expression, rather than the mere existence of one macro. Its syntax is
  60. </p>
  61. <div class="example">
  62. <pre class="example">#if <var>expression</var>
  63. <var>controlled text</var>
  64. #endif /* <var>expression</var> */
  65. </pre></div>
  66. <p><var>expression</var> is a C expression of integer type, subject to stringent
  67. restrictions. It may contain
  68. </p>
  69. <ul>
  70. <li> Integer constants.
  71. </li><li> Character constants, which are interpreted as they would be in normal
  72. code.
  73. </li><li> Arithmetic operators for addition, subtraction, multiplication,
  74. division, bitwise operations, shifts, comparisons, and logical
  75. operations (<code>&amp;&amp;</code> and <code>||</code>). The latter two obey the usual
  76. short-circuiting rules of standard C.
  77. </li><li> Macros. All macros in the expression are expanded before actual
  78. computation of the expression&rsquo;s value begins.
  79. </li><li> Uses of the <code>defined</code> operator, which lets you check whether macros
  80. are defined in the middle of an &lsquo;<samp>#if</samp>&rsquo;.
  81. </li><li> Identifiers that are not macros, which are all considered to be the
  82. number zero. This allows you to write <code>#if&nbsp;MACRO<!-- /@w --></code> instead of
  83. <code>#ifdef&nbsp;MACRO<!-- /@w --></code>, if you know that MACRO, when defined, will
  84. always have a nonzero value. Function-like macros used without their
  85. function call parentheses are also treated as zero.
  86. <p>In some contexts this shortcut is undesirable. The <samp>-Wundef</samp>
  87. option causes GCC to warn whenever it encounters an identifier which is
  88. not a macro in an &lsquo;<samp>#if</samp>&rsquo;.
  89. </p></li></ul>
  90. <p>The preprocessor does not know anything about types in the language.
  91. Therefore, <code>sizeof</code> operators are not recognized in &lsquo;<samp>#if</samp>&rsquo;, and
  92. neither are <code>enum</code> constants. They will be taken as identifiers
  93. which are not macros, and replaced by zero. In the case of
  94. <code>sizeof</code>, this is likely to cause the expression to be invalid.
  95. </p>
  96. <p>The preprocessor calculates the value of <var>expression</var>. It carries
  97. out all calculations in the widest integer type known to the compiler;
  98. on most machines supported by GCC this is 64 bits. This is not the same
  99. rule as the compiler uses to calculate the value of a constant
  100. expression, and may give different results in some cases. If the value
  101. comes out to be nonzero, the &lsquo;<samp>#if</samp>&rsquo; succeeds and the <var>controlled
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