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From: joe@proto.COM (Joe Huffman)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: comment style
Summary: You are using the wrong compiler.  :-)
Message-ID: <1492@proto.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 91 23:29:50 GMT
References: <1991Jan04.164355.15674@sco.COM>
Organization: Prototronics; Sandpoint, Idaho
Lines: 46

In article <1991Jan04.164355.15674@sco.COM>, ron@scocan.sco.COM (Ron Irvine) writes:
> A need for // (real) comments:
> 
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> void main() {
> 	int *p;
> 	int a;
> 	int f = 10;
> 	int n = 5;
> 
> 	p = &f;
> 
> 	a = 100/*p	/* calculate first factor */
> 	    + 25/n;	/* and second factor */
> 
> 	printf("The answer is %d, %s\n", a, (a==15)?"OK":"BAD");
> }
> 
> I have run this program on 4 different C compilers and none of them
> even warned of a potential problem (nested comments).

This is the response the Zortech compiler for SCO UNIX gave for the sample 
code:

ztc1 -DM_UNIX -DM_XOUT -f -3 -o/tmp/ztc_3HL.tmp ron
	a = 100/*p	/* calculate first factor */
	          	^
ron.c(27) : Warning: can't nest comments

Time to switch compilers?

:-)

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