Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: This one bit me today
Message-ID: <1989Dec15.165638.21283@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2739@hub.UUCP> <1989Oct28.005308.11463@virtech.uucp> <1989Nov28.145229.27060@sssab.se> <426@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG> <1501@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 89 16:56:38 GMT

In article <1501@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> battle@alphard.cs.utk.edu (David Battle) writes:
>What SHOULD the following program do?  Why?

In ANSI C, the answer is clear:  deletion of comments is done before
preprocessing.  In pre-ANSI C, the answer is mumble mumble mumble and
you'd better not depend on it either way.
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