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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
Message-ID: <970@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 89 16:26:35 GMT
References: <2437@hub.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <2437@hub.UUCP>, dougp@voodoo.ucsb.edu writes:
|  You can have a**p, a+*p, a-*p but not a/*p this is an inconsistancy
|  in the grammar. This wouldn't have been so bad but for a bug in
|  the Microsoft C compiler such that:
|  
|  // c=a/*p;
|     e=f*q;   /*comment*/
|  
|  causes the statment e=f*p; to be commented out. the /* in the line
|  commented out by // is seen as the beginning of the comment. This made
|  localizing the error an hour job.

  I'm missing something... what is the bug? /* starts a comment, */ ends
it. What behavior would you have expected which is more correct.

  Please clarify, I realize I may be missing you point, but this looks
like correct behavior to me. It conforms to 3.1.9 of the proposed std.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon