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C/C++ alternative preprocessing tokens

C++ has a set of alternative preprocessing tokens:
2.5/1
 and_eq &=
 and &&
 xor_eq ^=
 or ||
[..]


It turned out that C has them as well:
7.9

The header iso646.h defines the following eleven macros (on the left) that expand to
the corresponding tokens (on the right):

cat 4.6.3/include/iso646.h

#ifndef _ISO646_H
#define _ISO646_H

#ifndef __cplusplus
#define and     &&
#define and_eq  &=
#define bitand  &
#define bitor   |
#define compl   ~
#define not     !
#define not_eq  !=
#define or      ||
#define or_eq   |=
#define xor     ^
#define xor_eq  ^=
#endif

#endif

rq_of_rt_rq...

 kernel/sched_rt.c

 [..]

 113 static void dec_rt_migration(struct sched_rt_entity *rt_se, struct rt_rq *rt_rq)
 114 {
 115         if (!rt_entity_is_task(rt_se))
 116                 return;
 117
 118         rt_rq = &rq_of_rt_rq(rt_rq)->rt;
 119
 120         rt_rq->rt_nr_total--;
 121         if (rt_se->nr_cpus_allowed > 1)
 122                 rt_rq->rt_nr_migratory--;
[..]

Try to read `rt_rq = &rq_of_rt_rq(rt_rq)->rt;' fluently :-)

LinuxFr.org: Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum

Andrew Tanenbaum on Linux, GPL and stuff

LinuxFr.org : Do you think the Linux success is a proof he was right
or is it unrelated?

Andrew Tanenbaum : No, Linux "succeeded" because BSD was frozen out of
the market by AT&T at a crucial time. That's just dumb luck. Also, success
is relative. I run a political website that ordinary people read. On that
site statistics show that about 5% is Linux, 30% is Macintosh (which is BSD
inside) and the rest is Windows. These are ordinary people, not computer
geeks. I don't think of 5% as that big a success story.