Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!hplabs!pyramid!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: how widespread is this cpp bug? Message-ID: <5404@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 88 18:48:16 GMT References: <49179@pyramid.pyramid.com> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 26 in article <49179@pyramid.pyramid.com>, markhall@pyramid.pyramid.com (Mark Hall) says: > Summary: ``whitespace separates tokens'' > > #include> main() { > prin/* comment in the middle */tf ( "Hello World.\n" ); > } [...] > Does your cpp have this `feature'? Anyone know the history? I > suspect that AT&T and SUN know about this, but have chosen not to fix it. I found it to be present on two Amiga compilers, Manx V3.6a and Lattice C++ V1.0 (which is based on AT&T's cfront V1.1a, though the cpp program itself could be based on Lattice's or AT&T's, that's not made clear in the documentation). > -Mark Hall (smart mailer): markhall@pyramid.pyramid.com -- Dave Haynie "The 32 Bit Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy Amiga -- It's not just a job, it's an obsession