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From: arnold@gatech.UUCP (Arnold Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: C parsing: significance of spaces (a/*b)
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Date: Wed, 25-Apr-84 18:13:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 25 18:13:01 1984
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The a/*b problem under discussion is from the PREPROCESSOR, not in
the lexical analyzer, (although, as far as I know, it can handle it).
That is why the message is 'missing endif', only the cpp has endif's.
The cpp strips comments.

Admittedly, that is a bozo error message, but at least know where the
problem is!

Ever look at what comes out of the preprocessor? Try it sometime.
Pretty enlightening...
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Arnold Robbins
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