defining a comment?

[Paul Blumstein]

In article <5438 at techunix.BITNET> benny%techunix.bitnet at jade.berkeley.edu (Benny Pinkas) writes:
+Can I use the Preprocessor to define a comment?
+I mean something like:
+#define COM /*this is a comment*/
+or even
+#define STARTCOM /*
+
+Usually the text after the /* is considered as a comment and is not part
+of the macro definition.
+I searched a dozen of C books, and didn't find something of help.

Perhaps, If you told us what you want to do exactly, we can be of more
help.  Why define a comment, when it is already defined?

If you wanted a whole block commented out, one technique is:

#ifdef COMMENT
...
#endif

or

#if 0
...
#endif
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