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From: gsf@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Glenn Fowler[drew])
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ Comments
Summary: cpp must handle //
Keywords: cpp comments
Message-ID: <11587@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 24 May 89 14:53:22 GMT
References: <6957@brunix.UUCP> <9383@alice.UUCP> <958@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <958@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, nichols@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (robert.k.nichols) writes:
> > > Consider the following C++ source line:
> > >     //**********************
> 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.

even with -C, the lines following a //*** may be treated as a single comment:

	#define X Y
	//*****
	X	/* X is not expanded */

to get this right the // must be recognized by each component of the C++
compilation system
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Glenn Fowler    (201)-582-2195    AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
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