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From: hansen@pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ Comments
Message-ID: <2904@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 May 89 13:47:34 GMT
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Reply-To: hansen@pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lincroft, NJ, USA
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< the AT&T compiler uses /lib/cpp, which knows nothing about the // comment.

No it doesn't! The AT&T compiler, as sold, is a shell script (CC), a
compilation pass (cfront), some post-compilation pass programs (patch and
munch), and some libraries. It is up to the vendor who buys AT&T's compiler
to add in the preprocessor, C compiler and linker, and to modify CC
accordingly to find those pieces. It sounds like your vendor chose to use
/lib/cpp.

					Tony Hansen
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				    hansen@pegasus.att.com