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From: john9@garfield.UUCP (John Rochester)
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Subject: Re: "missing endif": Huh?Who?What?
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Date: Mon, 23-Apr-84 20:25:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 23 20:25:46 1984
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<  To Eat, or not to Eat?  That is the question...  >

>	The following file elicits the interesting response "missing endif" from cc.
>	Replacing *v/*w with (*v)/(*w) fixes it:
>	
>	---
>	foo (v,w)
>	int *v, *w;
>	{	int k;
>		k = *v/*w;		}
>	---

The problem is that the /* between the v and the w starts a comment...

			John Rochester
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