Hi Eljay, On Friday 04 March 2005 15:32, you wrote: > Hi Alexey, > > >Therefore, it appears that the lines [5] and [6] are wrong: > > It doesn't appear wrong to me. > > When a #include is done (or the GCC > behind-the-covers-don't-use-this-in-your-code #include_next), it pulls in > the specified file as if embedded, then returns back to processing the > first file. That's what I see in your y.c result. > > FYI - you can see your system include path via "gcc -E -v y.c". As you might have noticed, I ran cpp; that's the same. You must have misunderstood the question. What surprises me is that "#include_next <limits.h>", invoked from <gcc-include-dir>/syslimits.h actually results in including <gcc-include-dir>/limits.h instead of including /usr/include/limits.h. Please re-read the quote from the 'info cpp': cpp should have started the search with the directory _after_ the one containing syslimits.h. That should be /usr/include, given that 'cpp -v' outputs the following search order: #include "..." search starts here: #include <...> search starts here: /usr/local/include /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.3/include /usr/include End of search list. Any clues? Regards, Alexey. -- We are intelligent and clever, though you would never call us cunning. -- Spathi, SC2