Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and comment preprocessing
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.162508.16538@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11228@cae780.csi.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 1991 16:25:08 GMT

In article <11228@cae780.csi.com> donald@cae780.csi.com (Donald Maffly) writes:
>In pre-ANSI C compilers, I noticed that it was possible
>to place a comment within an idenitfier without
>splitting the identifier in two.  

In *some* pre-ANSI compilers this was possible.  Not by any means all.
The pre-ANSI specs for the preprocessor were just plain vague.

(Note that a lot of people's idea of "all the pre-ANSI compilers in the
world" is "all the ports of PCC that I normally use".  PCC is only one
compiler, for such non-code-generation issues, no matter how many machines
you run it on.  There were a good many non-PCC pre-ANSI compilers.)
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