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From: rick@tmiuv0.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: SAS C 5.10 and nested comments
Message-ID: <470@tmiuv0.uucp>
Date: 14 Sep 90 13:46:48 GMT
References: <2076@nyx.UUCP>
Organization: Technology Marketing Inc., Irvine, CA
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In article <2076@nyx.UUCP>, chanson@nyx.UUCP (chris hanson) writes:
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> [...] If I recall (I use the nested comment feature alot, love to
> comment out a block o' code for testing), in 5.0x, the nested comments
> option was -cc, not -cn.

I dunno about SAS/C, but since nested comments aren't always supported (the
ANSI standard, in fact, explicitly says that comments DON'T NEST (section
3.1.9 and footnote 26, ANSI standard X3.159-1989)), the better way to do
this is:

    #if 0
      [stuff to be ignored]
    #endif

You're guaranteed of ANSI compatibility this way, and it'll compile on any
machine.

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