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Re: Fw: Possible GCC Bug
- To: marmalade at x-stream dot co dot uk (Nick Fleming)
- Subject: Re: Fw: Possible GCC Bug
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 15 Apr 2000 16:19:51 -0700
- CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <000401bfa6f7$8183e1a0$0100a8c0.cygnus.bug-gcc@amanda>
This is not a bug.
marmalade@x-stream.co.uk (Nick Fleming) writes:
> > > 0xff, // 00000000 // \
> > > 0x60, // 01100000
That is a two-line comment.
This follows from the list of translation phases in section 5.1.1.2 of
the 1999 C standard. backslash-newline constructs are deleted in
phase 2; then comments are recognised and replaced by spaces in phase
3.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>