C, embedded comments and preprocessors

[Gary Mills]

lwv27 at CAS.BITNET writes:

>I have not been able to afford a copy of the new ANSI std for c,
>and perhaps it clarifies the situation.

You are relying on nested comments, and even the original K&R states
that `comments do not nest'.

>I have for some time commented out portions of code by surrounding them by
>a construct similar to:

A better way to remove some code from the compilation is with:

#ifndef OLD_STUFF

lines of code   /*  line comment */

lines of various text's comments

lines of code   /*  line comment */

#endif

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-Gary Mills-             -University of Manitoba-             -Winnipeg-