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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: #include <foo.h> /* comment legal? */
Message-ID: <169@decvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 17:21:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: decvax.169
Posted: Fri Oct  9 17:21:39 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 00:44:44 EDT
Reply-To: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Organization: Digital Eq. Corp. - Merrimack NH.
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May a comment follow the file specifier in an #include statement?
The August 3 '87 Draft Standard defines #include as
	#include pp-tokens new-line
While comments are syntactically "white-space characters", the Standard
specifically states that only space and horizontal-tab may appear within
a preprocessing statement (sec 3.7.1, p 76, line 34-36).

For that matter, may a comment appear in any p.p. statement such as:
	#define	BEAUTY	TRUE	/* All you need to know */

What is the modtivation for the "only space and tab" constraint?

Martin Minow
decvax!minow