ANSI C and comment preprocessing
Henry Spencer
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Wed Jan 9 03:25:08 AEST 1991
In article <11228 at cae780.csi.com> donald at cae780.csi.com (Donald Maffly) writes:
>In pre-ANSI C compilers, I noticed that it was possible
>to place a comment within an idenitfier without
>splitting the identifier in two.
In *some* pre-ANSI compilers this was possible. Not by any means all.
The pre-ANSI specs for the preprocessor were just plain vague.
(Note that a lot of people's idea of "all the pre-ANSI compilers in the
world" is "all the ports of PCC that I normally use". PCC is only one
compiler, for such non-code-generation issues, no matter how many machines
you run it on. There were a good many non-PCC pre-ANSI compilers.)
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