comment style
Joe Huffman
joe at proto.COM
Sun Jan 6 10:29:50 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jan04.164355.15674 at sco.COM>, ron at scocan.sco.COM (Ron Irvine) writes:
> A need for // (real) comments:
>
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> void main() {
> int *p;
> int a;
> int f = 10;
> int n = 5;
>
> p = &f;
>
> a = 100/*p /* calculate first factor */
> + 25/n; /* and second factor */
>
> printf("The answer is %d, %s\n", a, (a==15)?"OK":"BAD");
> }
>
> I have run this program on 4 different C compilers and none of them
> even warned of a potential problem (nested comments).
This is the response the Zortech compiler for SCO UNIX gave for the sample
code:
ztc1 -DM_UNIX -DM_XOUT -f -3 -o/tmp/ztc_3HL.tmp ron
a = 100/*p /* calculate first factor */
^
ron.c(27) : Warning: can't nest comments
Time to switch compilers?
:-)
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