C parsing: significance of spaces (a/*b)

[Arnold Robbins]

The a/*b problem under discussion is from the PREPROCESSOR, not in
the lexical analyzer, (although, as far as I know, it can handle it).
That is why the message is 'missing endif', only the cpp has endif's.
The cpp strips comments.

Admittedly, that is a bozo error message, but at least know where the
problem is!

Ever look at what comes out of the preprocessor? Try it sometime.
Pretty enlightening...
-- 
Arnold Robbins
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