how widespread is this cpp bug?

[Rick Kimball]

>From article <408 at marob.MASA.COM>, by daveh at marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond):
> In article <49179 at pyramid.pyramid.com> markhall at pyramid.UUCP (Mark Hall) writes:
>The following code compiles and runs on pyramid, att-3b2, and sun3:
>
>	#include <stdio.h>
>	main() 
>	{
>		prin/* comment in the middle */tf ( "Hello World.\n" );
>	}
>
On AT&T UNIX-PC SYSTEM V V3. 51 the standard cpp gets it wrong
however, GCC V1.30 gets it right:

$ gcc -O 6449.c -o 6449
6449.c: In function main:
6449.c:7: undeclared variable `prin' (first use here)
6449.c:7: parse error before `tf'

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