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From: ccdn@levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc,comp.os.vms,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problems with GCC and/or VAX LINK
Message-ID: <1732@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 14 Mar 89 17:57:38 GMT
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ccdn@levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL) <1680@levels.sait.edu.au> :
> 1.  GCC doesn't allow mismatched quotation marks.  For example:
>         /* this isn't going to work */
>     doesn't compile because the comment has a single quotation mark.

***** FLAME ON *****

GCC does NOT complain about mismatched quotation marks in *comments*.
It does complain about them in `#ifdef 0'd code.  The example should
have been:

#ifdef 0
    This isn't going to work
#endif

So there!

***** FLAME OFF *****

I got confused.  Sorry.

Mind you, this is still a problem.  A program section which is
conditionally  _not_ compiled should be treated like a comment -- it
shouldn't matter what's inside the #ifdef/#endif.


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