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  68. <h4 class="subsection">3.10.7 Newlines in Arguments</h4>
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  70. <p>The invocation of a function-like macro can extend over many logical
  71. lines. However, in the present implementation, the entire expansion
  72. comes out on one line. Thus line numbers emitted by the compiler or
  73. debugger refer to the line the invocation started on, which might be
  74. different to the line containing the argument causing the problem.
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  79. <pre class="smallexample">#define ignore_second_arg(a,b,c) a; c
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  82. syntax error);
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  84. <p>The syntax error triggered by the tokens <code>syntax error</code> results in
  85. an error message citing line three&mdash;the line of ignore_second_arg&mdash;
  86. even though the problematic code comes from line five.
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