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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
Message-ID: <11577@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Nov 89 12:13:20 GMT
References: <2739@hub.UUCP> <1989Oct28.005308.11463@virtech.uucp> <336@cyan.UUCP> <2614@munnari.oz.au> <1017@dinorah.wustl.edu> <11463@smoke.BRL.MIL> <136@csnz.co.nz>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <136@csnz.co.nz> paul@csnz.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
-In article <11463@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
->The most reasonable one was to add //-comment-to-end-of-line style
->comments.  ...  However, it was quite a bother
->when our //-ed code had to be compiled by a compiler that hadn't
->received this hack!
-sed -d ?^//? < foo.c > tmp.c ; cc tmp.c -o foo

Sorry, that's completely wrong.

I had to write a decidedly non-trivial program to do the job.
It was based on an FSA.