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From: brianh@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (brian_helterline)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C, embedded comments and preprocessors
Message-ID: <31530019@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 90 17:14:55 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
>lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes:

>>I have not been able to afford a copy of the new ANSI std for c,
>>and perhaps it clarifies the situation.

>You are relying on nested comments, and even the original K&R states
>that `comments do not nest'.

>>I have for some time commented out portions of code by surrounding them by
>>a construct similar to:

>A better way to remove some code from the compilation is with:

>#ifndef OLD_STUFF

>lines of code   /*  line comment */

>lines of various text's comments

>lines of code   /*  line comment */

>#endif


Even better is to use

#if 0

lines of code   /*  line comment */

lines of various text's comments

lines of code   /*  line comment */

#endif