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From:	Malcolm Douglas <douglas AT berkshire DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Parse Errors! Argh! help me please
Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 1996 21:35:06 -0400
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John M. Aldrich wrote:
> 
> White wrote:
> >
> > I keep getting these code parsing errors when i try to compile a old
> > game i wrote for MS visual C 1.0. I think it has something to do with
> > the comment lines, but i cant seem to fix it.
> > I use comments like this ---->     //comments here
> > I think it supports only this king---->   /*comments here*/
> >
> > can i make it support the first one in a C program?? I really need help.
> > Thank you,
> 
> MS Visual C allows C++ style comments in C code, whereas DJGPP does not.
> There is a utility available to convert the comments to C-style, but I
> don't remember the location off-hand.  Barring that, you can either change
> the comment style yourself or compile your program as a C++ program.
> 

DJGPP v2 does support // comments, but v1 does not.  I generally don't use
them, however.

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