From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Fw: Possible GCC Bug
Date:	17 Apr 2000 11:06:39 GMT
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>> 0xff, // 00000000  // \
>> 0x60, // 01100000
[...]
>> I think gcc's scanner is interpreting the slash as a special character, 
>> rather than just skipping it as it should as it is part of a single 
>> line comment.

That interpretation of what it should do is wrong. The C99 draft
(which is the only useable reference about // comments in C programs)
clearly demonstrates it in one of its examples in section 6.4.9:

               //\
               i();                     // part of a two-line comment

Technically spoken: backslash-newline removal happens before the
source is parsed for comments or any other tokens. This is so even in
old-style ANSI C.



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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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