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Re: Comment delimiter in string

To: Stephan Schulz <schulz at informatik dot tu-muenchen dot de>
Subject: Re: Comment delimiter in string
From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>
Date: 05 Jun 1998 13:05:44 -0300
Cc: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
References: <98Jun5.165523+0200met_dst.901696-215+423@sunjessen21.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

Stephan Schulz <schulz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:

> I think I found a bug in the string/comment handling of egcs 1.0.1.

This is not a bug, the behavior is correct.

>    /* fprintf(stdout, "/* %s */", 1 ? "Maximal" : "Not!"); */

This is interpreted as:

     ", 1 ? "Maximal" : "Not!"); */

which is clearly in error.  Comments do not nest in ANSI/ISO C, AFAIK

-- 
Alexandre Oliva
mailto:oliva@dcc.unicamp.br mailto:aoliva@acm.org
http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

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