C, embedded comments and preprocessors
brian_helterline
brianh at hpcvia.CV.HP.COM
Fri Sep 21 03:14:55 AEST 1990
mills at ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
>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
Even better is to use
#if 0
lines of code /* line comment */
lines of various text's comments
lines of code /* line comment */
#endif
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