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From: ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Preprocessor Trickery
Message-ID: <422@brl-vgr.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 13:23:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 28 13:23:25 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 2-Jul-84 00:16:42 EDT
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Organization: Ballistics Research Lab
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The behaviour is wrong.  According to the manual a comment is supposed to
be syntactically like white space.  The C standards people are suggesting
that a new character ('#') be used by the preprocessor to do the same thing
that /**/ is used for.

-Ron