Hi Eljay, On Friday 04 March 2005 16:20, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote: > >Please re-read the quote from the 'info cpp': cpp should have > >started the search with the directory _after_ the one containing > >syslimits.h > > I did read it, and that appears to be exactly what is happening in > your example. Nope, you're wrong: > [1] Your y.c source > [2] <gcc-include-dir>/limits.h starts > [3] <gcc-include-dir>/limits.h about to include a new file > [4] <gcc-include-dir>/syslimits.h starts-and-completes syslimits.h doesn't start and complete: it does "#include_next <limits.h>" instead. Therefore here should be: [4] <gcc-include-dir>/syslimits.h starts [5] <gcc-include-dir>/syslimits.h about to #include_next <limits.h> [6] /usr/include/limits.h starts [7] /usr/include/limits.h completes [8] <gcc-include-dir>/syslimits.h completes [9] <gcc-include-dir>/limits.h completes Instead, this happens [4] <gcc-include-dir>/syslimits.h starts [5] <gcc-include-dir>/syslimits.h about to #include_next <limits.h> [6] <gcc-include-dir>/limits.h starts [7] <gcc-include-dir>/limits.h about to #include_next <limits.h> [8] /usr/include/limits.h starts [9] /usr/include/limits.h completes [10] <gcc-include-dir>/limits.h completes [11] <gcc-include-dir>/syslimits.h completes [12] <gcc-include-dir>/limits.h completes Why? Alexey. -- Don't be afraid of love. Are you afraid of love? -- Pkunks, SC2