warning: '/*' within comment

[diamond@tkovoa]

In article <1990Jun1.200433.6919 at druid.uucp> darcy at druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:

>Is there anything in the standard that
>allows the compiler to ignore the quotes while inside a comment.

In fact, a compiler is REQUIRED to ignore quotes while inside a comment.

/* If a compiler doesn't ingore this comment, it is broken.
   Though if it wishes to be unpopular, it may warn about the apostrophe. */

char *x = "Address of " /* Beginning of string; comment with extra " mark */
          "string";     /* and x MUST point to "Address of string".       */

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