Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Comments and pragma lines
Message-ID: <1988Dec5.180730.1672@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <48957@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1988Nov29.171740.22165@utzoo.uucp> <1832@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 88 18:07:30 GMT

In article <1832@laidbak.UUCP> katzung@laidbak.UUCP (Brian Katzung) writes:
>>It's even legal to write "/* foo */ # /* bar */ pragma ...".
>
>Unless I'm mistaken, only in a function-like #define token replacement list!
>It won't be a #pragma because the # is not the first character on the line.

X3J11 has removed the first-char-on-the-line restriction; now # can be
preceded, as well as followed, by white space (which is what comments are).
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