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From: steve@warwick.UUCP (Steve Rumsby)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++
Subject: Compiler bug report (#3)
Message-ID: <262@euclid.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 10:46:41 EST
Article-I.D.: euclid.262
Posted: Tue Mar 11 10:46:41 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 18:52:14 EST
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Organization: Maths Institute, Warwick University, UK
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This is one of a series of reports of bugs found in the C++ compiler here at
warwick. We have release 1.0 of the software.

DESCRIPTION

	A C++ file is run through cpp before cfront, right?
	Cpp Doesn't recognise // style comments and tries to process them
	as normal. Any words in such comments which also happen to be
	macro names will cause cpp to throw up.

EXAMPLE

	#define foo(x)	(x)

	main()
	{
		int i = 1;
		int j = 2;

		i = foo(j);	// That use of foo is fine, but the two
				// occurrances of foo in this comment
				// aren't
	}

OUTPUT

	CC  /tmp/x.c:
	/tmp/x.c: 8: foo: argument mismatch
	/tmp/x.c: 9: foo: argument mismatch
	/tmp/x.c: 8: foo: unterminated macro call
	1 error

-- 

					Steve Rumsby.

				    ...!ukc!warwick!steve.