missing terminating ' character

[Hariharan]

Thanks for your clarifications Brian. I have "fixed" by expectations :-)

Cheers
Hari

Brian Dessent wrote:
> 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