Serious error-causing change in new CPP's -traditional behavior

[Jason R Thorpe]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 04:43:34PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:

 > > dr-evil:thorpej 144$ /usr/libexec/cpp -lang-c -CC cpp-comments.c 
 > > # 1 "cpp-comments.c"
 > > /* This is a comment. *//*CONSTCOND*/
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > void func(int arg)
 > > {
 > > 
 > >         do { /* This is a comment. */ if (( arg ) > 0) foo(( arg )); } while (/*CONSTCOND*/0) ;
 > > }
 > 
 > Hmm.  Could you live with the comments inside #defines not appearing
 > in the location of the #define?

Lint only cares about the comments being in place where the macro is
expanded.  It does not care about the comment being where the #define
directive is.  So, from that perspective, I don't care.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>