Hariharan wrote:
I am not exactly sure if this is buggy behaviour, but it obviously isnt
what i would have expected.
Please clarify if this is a bug.
It's a bug in your expectations. "#if 0" is not the same as a glorified
comment marker. The text it contains must still consist of valid
preprocessor tokens, because it must still remain parsable by the
preprocessor. Consider for example that "#endif" could occur inside a
backslash-newline-continued string and in that case it is a string
literal and not treated as an #endif by the preprocessor. So, the
preprocessor has to care about balanced quotes, even in text that it is
discarding.
Brian