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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Nested comments in VAX C -- Help!
Message-ID: <VHG+SRC@cs.widener.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 01:39:53 GMT
References: <114836@cc.utah.edu>
Organization: Widener CS Dept
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In <114836@cc.utah.edu>, RCAPENER@cc.utah.edu writes:
>if you try  /* outside comment /* inside comment */ */
>the compiler throws up!

 As it should .. no compiler should let that through.
 When you "nest" comments, you have multiple starts (/*); the */
sequence tells cpp that it's the end of the comment, and it should
start paying attention again. The second */ is what it's throwing up on.

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