On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 11:54 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

Moreover, it works for everyone else, evidently, including with
GCC 7.x (which is what I have here).  Something strange goes on there.

I am on gcc 7.2.0.

I tried with/without the extra parens and with/without the # chars in col-0, but still am getting " error: missing binary operator before token "("".