Comments and pragma lines
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Wed Nov 30 03:17:40 AEST 1988
In article <48957 at pyramid.pyramid.com> markhall at pyramid.UUCP (Mark Hall) writes:
>Is it legal to start the comment on the pragma line? From what I read*
>in the standard, it is illegal...
Sorry, wrong, see 2.1.1.2, which clearly specifies that comments disappear
long before #pragma and its kin are recognized. Comments are legal anywhere.
It's even legal to write "/* foo */ # /* bar */ pragma ...".
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