Comments and pragma lines

[Henry Spencer]

In article <48957 at pyramid.pyramid.com> markhall at pyramid.UUCP (Mark Hall) writes:
>Is it legal to start the comment on the pragma line?  From what I read*
>in the standard, it is illegal...

Sorry, wrong, see 2.1.1.2, which clearly specifies that comments disappear
long before #pragma and its kin are recognized.  Comments are legal anywhere.
It's even legal to write "/* foo */ # /* bar */ pragma ...".
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