Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!hoptoad!peora!pcsi!kimbal!rick From: rick@kimbal.UUCP (Rick Kimball) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: how widespread is this cpp bug? Message-ID: <819@kimbal.UUCP> Date: 4 Dec 88 01:30:13 GMT References: <408@marob.MASA.COM> Organization: Mac Source BBS, Altamonte Springs, FL (407)862-6214 Lines: 23 From article <408@marob.MASA.COM>, by daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond): > In article <49179@pyramid.pyramid.com> markhall@pyramid.UUCP (Mark Hall) writes: >The following code compiles and runs on pyramid, att-3b2, and sun3: > > #include> main() > { > prin/* comment in the middle */tf ( "Hello World.\n" ); > } > On AT&T UNIX-PC SYSTEM V V3. 51 the standard cpp gets it wrong however, GCC V1.30 gets it right: $ gcc -O 6449.c -o 6449 6449.c: In function main: 6449.c:7: undeclared variable `prin' (first use here) 6449.c:7: parse error before `tf' -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Rick Kimball | Mac Source BBS, Altamonte Springs, FL DATA (407) 862-6214 | VOICE (407) 788-6875 UUCP: rick@kimbal ..!gatech!fabscal!kimbal!rick ..!ucf-cs!sdgsun!kimbal!rick