ANSI C and comment preprocessing
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Wed Jan 9 19:40:49 AEST 1991
In article <11228 at cae780.csi.com> donald at cae780.csi.com (Donald Maffly) writes:
> int my/* comment */var;
>Can anyone help me answer this koan????
The Reiser C preprocessor incorrectly implemented comment stripping,
as well as several other portions of the C language specification used
at the time, and some over-clever programmers decided to exploit this
bug in their C code. It was never valid C usage, and still isn't.
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