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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Comment Syntax
Message-ID: <14507@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 17 Nov 90 14:37:07 GMT
References: <48.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.COM> <I4=67D4@xds13.ferranti.com> <1015@inews.intel.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1015@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <I4=67D4@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>Makes sense for me for comment processing to come first, before
>>anything else.
>Okay, then.  Who wants to through all my system header files and
>remove all the comments?

What in the world does your use of comments look like that it would
run afoul of the standard phases of translation?