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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: valid program?
Message-ID: <2203@solo1.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 22 Mar 89 19:02:58 GMT
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Lines: 18

#define		a()/
#define		b()*

main()
{
	a()b() is this ANSI conformant? b()a()

	exit(0);
}

/*
 * Doesn't K&R2 say comments are handled in the preprocessing phase?
 * Our 4.3BSD and SysV cc's accept this program
 * (/lib/ccom strips comments too).
 */
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