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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc,comp.os.vms,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problems with GCC and/or VAX LINK
Keywords: globalref, extern, quotation marks
Message-ID: <18426@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 89 04:02:08 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Organization: malkaryotic
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ccdn@levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL) <1680@levels.sait.edu.au> :
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-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.

gcc v1.34 under ULTRIX has no problems with a single quote in a comment.