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From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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Subject: Re: comment style
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.200141.7551@dirtydog.ima.isc.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 20:01:41 GMT
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In article <1991Jan08.164014.26804@sco.COM> ron@scocan.sco.COM (Ron Irvine) writes:
>[The code fragment "a = 100/*p /* calculate first factor */" was compiled
>with no warning on four diferent compilers, one of which was gcc.]

gcc does indeed flag this, provided you have the warnings enabled with -Wall.
I strongly recommend using this option, and avoiding those coding styles% that
violate the assumptions it uses.  (In fact, I normally compile my own code
with gcc -Wall -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings, and lint it as well.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint
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% In particular, the (legal but questionable)
	/*#define BSD 1 /* uncomment this line for BSD systems */