Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!eos!labrea!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!unido!nixpbe!ugun21!mue From: mue@ugun21.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Something new in C syntax Message-ID: <2600002@ugun21> Date: 29 Jan 89 16:58:00 GMT References: <4586@bunker.UUCP> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:bunker.UUCP:-458600:ugun21:2600002:000:300 Nf-From: ugun21.UUCP!mue Jan 29 17:58:00 1989 I think the preprocessor handles comments before #'s, and so the whole range between /* and */ is discarded. You can check this by 'cc -E .c '. H.Mueller Nixdorf Computer D-4790 Paderborn Germany !USA:...mcvax!unido!nixpbe!hmueller.pad USA: ...uunet!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!hmueller.pad