warning: '/*' within comment

[diamond@tkovoa]

The original poster of this topic has already changed the example
twice, but let's wrap up this tangent.

In article <25176 at rphroy.UUCP> tkacik at rphroy.uucp (Tom Tkacik) writes:
||| What's the problem?
|||  #include <stdio.h>
|||  #if 0
|||  C's weird#if 1 /* isn't it */
|||  #else
|||  int main(int c, char *v[]) { printf("Hello, world!\n"); return 0; }
|||  #endif
||| preprocesses to
|||  [contents of <stdio.h>]
|||  int main(int c, char *v[]) { printf("Hello, world!\n"); return 0; }
||| regardless of whether the preprocessor really tokenizes or not the line
|||  C's weird#if 1 /* isn't it */
>
>The problem is the C's.  If the preprocessor tokenizes, it will think that
>the 's is the start of 's'.  It may issue an error about a missing
>closing quote.  Even though the text is ignored, this must be analyzed. 

Huh?
|||  C's weird#if 1 /* isn't it */
      '                   '
it has opening and closing 's.
The VALUE of a character constant containing more than one character is
implemenation defined, but its syntactic effect is not.  It is a character
constant.  (And it is #if'ed out.)

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