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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C and comment preprocessing
Message-ID: <14793@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 9 Jan 91 08:40:49 GMT
References: <11228@cae780.csi.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <11228@cae780.csi.com> donald@cae780.csi.com (Donald Maffly) writes:
>	int my/* comment */var;
>Can anyone help me answer this koan????

The Reiser C preprocessor incorrectly implemented comment stripping,
as well as several other portions of the C language specification used
at the time, and some over-clever programmers decided to exploit this
bug in their C code.  It was never valid C usage, and still isn't.