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From: nichols@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (robert.k.nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ Comments
Summary: cpp -C should fix it
Keywords: cpp comments
Message-ID: <958@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 May 89 03:20:15 GMT
References: <6957@brunix.UUCP> <9383@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: nichols@iexist.ATT.COM (robert.k.nichols)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 21

In article <9383@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
|In article <6957@brunix.UUCP>, sdm@cs.brown.edu (Scott Meyers) writes:
|> Consider the following C++ source line:
|>     //**********************
|> How should this be treated by the C++ compiler?
|
|It's a // comment followed by a bunch of *'s.
|
|However, many C preprocessors strip comments out of your
|program and also don't recognize C++ comments.  Thus by the
|time the C++ compiler sees this, it looks like this:
|
|	/

If cpp is invoked with the "-C" option it will leave comments as is,
which should solve problems like the above.  This won't solve problems
with // comments in macro definitions, though.
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