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From: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: defining a comment?
Keywords: preprocessor,comments
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Date: 17 Sep 88 03:21:05 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <13544@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
: >#define STARTCOM /*
:
: This is rather dubious.

We use this construction in our code, it is always in something
like:

#define XYZZY /* comment ....
		 more comment */

We have never had any complaints about it.

I'd say that

#define STARTCOM /*

just defines STARTCOM as nothing and comments out anything
following the #define.

I'd also say that any compiler that didn't do this is broken.

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Bill
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