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Article #5448Re: Comments and pragma lines
From: Stephen J. Friedl
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1988 01:53
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1988 01:53
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In article <48957@pyramid.pyramid.com>, markhall@pyramid.pyramid.com (Mark Hall) writes:
> Is it legal to start the comment on the pragma line? From what I read
> in the standard, it is illegal.
Comments are removed before any preprocessing directives are recognized, so
#pragma foo /* comment
goes
here */
removes the entire comment before the #pragma is seen. This comes from
section 2.1.1.2, `Translation Phases' (page 6 of the May88 dpANS).
Steve
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Comments and pragma lines Summary: Comments go out before preprocessor directives are recognized Message-ID: <959@vsi.COM> Date: 30 Nov 88 01:53:56 GMT References: <48957@pyramid.pyramid.com> Distribution: na Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 20