Comments and pragma lines

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <48957 at pyramid.pyramid.com>, markhall at pyramid.pyramid.com (Mark Hall) writes:
> Is it legal to start the comment on the pragma line?  From what I read
> in the standard, it is illegal.

Comments are removed before any preprocessing directives are recognized, so 

	#pragma foo		/* comment
				   goes
				   here */

removes the entire comment before the #pragma is seen.  This comes from
section 2.1.1.2, `Translation Phases' (page 6 of the May88 dpANS).

     Steve

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