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From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Parse Errors! Argh! help me please
Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 1996 17:49:25 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> That is incorrect.  GCC 2.7.0 and later also supports C++-style comments
> in a C program.  If the version of GCC that's used is earlier (DJGPP v2.0
> comes with GCC 2.7.2), then there is a switch to GCC you can use to make
> it support C++-style comments, like so:
> 
>        gcc -c -Wp,-lang-c-c++-comments myprog.c
> 
> For more details on this, read section 8.3 of the DJGPP FAQ list
> (available as v2/faq201b.zip from the same place you get DJGPP).

A better idea, though, is to not use C++-style comments in a C program in the
first place.  It's like trying to use shell script comments in a FORTRAN
program; they're two different things.

(If you had to inherit code, that's at least one reason not to be keen on
converting comment styles.)

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