Comment in #define's

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <583 at ssp9.idca.tds.philips.nl> dolf at idca.tds.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:
>... is the comment in the #define supposed to be removed or not ?
>What does ANSI-C say about this ?

The C standard does not include constraints for "lint" or partial phases
of translation.  Certainly as part of translation by a conforming C
implementation (i.e. compiler), comments get turned into white space
very early in the phases of translation.