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From: pat@ctycal.UUCP (Patrick Woo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Is this correct a=/* comment */b;
Keywords: comment, operator
Message-ID: <532@ctycal.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 91 16:42:10 GMT
Organization: The City of Calgary, Ab
Lines: 17

I have the following line in some third party source code

a=/* This is a comment */b;

it compile using VAX C and fails with Green Hill C
Just wondering whether the compiler should read the line as

a = /*comment*/ b;

or

a =/ *comment ...;

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