Fw: Possible GCC Bug

Geoff Keating geoffk@cygnus.com
Sat Apr 15 16:29:00 GMT 2000


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>


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