how widespread is this cpp bug?

[Dave Haynie]

in article <49179 at pyramid.pyramid.com>, markhall at pyramid.pyramid.com (Mark Hall) says:
> Summary: ``whitespace separates tokens''

> 
> 	#include <stdio.h>
> 	main() {
> 		prin/* comment in the middle */tf ( "Hello World.\n" );
> 	}

[...]

> Does your cpp have this `feature'?  Anyone know the history?  I
> suspect that AT&T and SUN know about this, but have chosen not to fix it.

I found it to be present on two Amiga compilers, Manx V3.6a and Lattice
C++ V1.0 (which is based on AT&T's cfront V1.1a, though the cpp program
itself could be based on Lattice's or AT&T's, that's not made clear in
the documentation).

> -Mark Hall (smart mailer): markhall at pyramid.pyramid.com


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